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Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by badger, Apr 10, 2006.

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    I have a site, a kind of parking site - that allows registered users to park their domains.. The difference between my site and others is that mine creates a mini news site using automated relevant content and so thus you might call it a "mini news parking site"...

    Anyway, up to now, Ive been asking users to forward their domains to rootdomain/theirdomain.. However, most complain that theyd much rather use a Nameserver change rather than have to change all their domains, one at a time, by hand...

    The site is hosted on a shared hosting platform...

    So, is there a way to allow users to change the nameservers on their domains which will still make them resolve to my site without me having to do masses of nameserver configuration and domain additions server side??

    Anyones help will be mega appreciated.
     
    badger, Apr 10, 2006 IP
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    forkqueue Guest

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    Do you mean they want to simply change their nameservers to yours? Or rather that they want to point their A record to your IP and then have it handled from there?

    Either is possible, but how you'd go about implementing it would depend on which you're going to do.
     
    forkqueue, Apr 10, 2006 IP
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    well, I want my customers to be able to point their domain/s to my website using a change of nameservers (rather than using their registrars NS and enabling Url forwarding).

    But im on a shared host, so surely if the server my website is on receives an unknown domain, it will get an error message (unless i load the domain in the DNS (which i dont want to have to do with 00000's of domains)).

    ????
     
    badger, Apr 10, 2006 IP