I was working on a publishing platform of sorts where users can sign up and create a blog for themselves. Currently I was planning to host it on https://vercel.com. How would I set up something so that users can use their own domain and get only their blog on that domain. I'm sorry if the question is a bit too broad but if someone could point me in a general direction I would be very grateful. The only thing that comes to mind would be setting up a DNS server and then using that to route the users domain but I don't know if that's the right way to go about it. Thanks in advance for your help.
The users would have to point to your nameservers on their DNS record if they control the domain. You can learn more about nameservers in this article: https://serverfault.com/questions/355887/why-does-dns-work-the-way-it-does
What you can do is provide them with a subdomain of the domain of your publishing platform such as:
user1.publisher.com
user2.publisher.com
Subdomain records reside within the authoritative record for a domain, so you can add and remove them easily.
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Can I create a sub-domain? suppose there is an organization and they have a domain organization.com can I register a domain named anything.organization.com please reply fast?
If you own the domain, then yes, you can easily register a subdomain and there are many many tutorials online that explain how to do this.
If, however, you're part of an organization that owns the top-level domain, then you'll likely have to speak to whoever is "in charge of" that domain if you want a custom subdomain made for your purposes.
In general, the larger the organization, the slimmer your chances are of getting this approved...
I want to create a subdomain per user, eg: "bumpy.example.com". How do I do this? I'm using express, Heroku, Cloudflare, and Namecheap (domain provider, but Cloudflare is my nameserver). If you could provide steps that would be great.
So a few steps:
You need a custom domain name (ie: example.com).
Then you need a wildcard SSL for that domain name: (ie: *.example.com).
Then you need to setup your routing system to make use of that domain name, sadly not familiar with express, so this is as much as I can help you, but the gist is that you store the subdomain value for each user.
Also searching online for things like Express <name of the database you use> Multi-tenancy might help in terms of finding libraries to handle the backend logic.
I have a google corporate account, I have already set up 5 other domain alias for my email accounts. I already own all these domains, and all of the domains were registered through the same hosting company.
for example:
john#domain1.com
john#domain2.com
john#domain3.com
john#domain4.com
john#domain5.com
But I am trying to add another alias and google tells me that the domain is already in use, which is not possible because I own this domain already. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how I would go about fixing this?
It turns out the previous owner was still verified as the owner. I had to contact google support and they sent me the instructions to verify us as the owners of the domain.
I have registered a domain (though there is no hosting yet, just name registration) and I am trying to set up google apps so that I can have email, but I cannot figure it out. Is there something I am missing? I feel like it should be easier than it is right now.
You need to correctly set the MX records at your registrar.
Have you proved domain ownership including a CNAME record in your DNS server? Just follow the instructions.
If you don't have access to your DNS server for adding records, and don't have a webserver where you can put a verification file I think you wont be able do setup e-mail.
If you already have the domain, you just need to follow the registration process, you will be taken through all the steps. If you got to the Admin Console you should have a message bar Top of the page with Verify Domain.
the best way to do it is to try the new Learning Center, http://learn.googleapps.com/.
I've got a problem where I have a .co.uk domain of which I am the registrant but my web developers control the domain via easyspace.com. I'm not using the web developers anymore and it ended on bad terms so I would like to change my domain to another registrar without getting them involved. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks
In order to do anything with your domain, you need to be a registered user for it. for every domain, there 4 types of registered user:
Registrant/Owner
Administrative Contact
Billing Contact
and Technical Contact
If you do a whois look-up of your domain name you can see if you are one of those registered users.
If you are, you should be able to contact the Registrar of record (i.e. GoDaddy, Network Solutions, GKG, etc.) and gain an account control login if you do not already have a login for them.
Once you have an account, you can change the Name Servers thereby pointing your site to a different server than it is currently, or initiate a transfer to a new registrar (which costs money - typically the price of a 1 year registration)
Tell them to give you control of it. You're not asking them to do something for you, you're just demanding them to hand over what's yours (assuming the domain is yours).
If you own the domain name, you should be able to change the information with the registrar to point it at another hosting service or your own.
Change your domain host to point to a new name server that you control.
You may lose your web site code but can always start a fresh.