Domains
Registering, moving and renewing a domain, and pointing it somewhere.
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In this category 27 articles
- Transfer a domain to HostBari
Unlock, fetch the EPP code, and keep a year of registration.
- Point your domain to HostBari
Change your nameservers, or keep them and point an A record instead.
- What can block a transfer
Check these five things before you start, and a transfer is a five-day wait rather than a fortnight of email.
- What each DNS record does
The eight record types you can add, in the order you are likely to need them.
- Find the EPP code for a domain
The password that authorises a move — where it lives, and what to do when the panel will not show it.
- Change the nameservers on a domain
Where to type them, how many a registry wants, and the two mistakes that leave a domain unreachable.
- Move a domain to another account
Changing which HostBari account holds a name — not a registrar transfer, and much faster.
- Forward a domain to another address
Sending one name to another site — what DNS can do, what it cannot, and which of the two you need.
- When a domain is suspended
Suspension stops the website and the mail at once. The three reasons, and which of them you can fix yourself.
- The contact details on a domain
Four contacts sit on every domain. One of them decides whether you can prove the name is yours.
- Start using our DNS
Three steps, in an order that matters: build the zone, check it, then point the domain at it.
- What happens when a domain expires
Four stages, and the price of recovery climbs at every one. Where the cheap window ends.
- Move several domains at once
One checkout, one code each. What can be batched and what genuinely cannot.
- Choosing a TTL
The number that decides how long the internet remembers an answer you have already changed.
- Child nameservers and glue records
Running nameservers named under your own domain — what the extra record is for, and whether you need any of it.
- Move a domain to another registrar
Two switches and a code. What we do not do is make it hard — but fourteen of our extensions cannot move at all.
- DNSSEC, and whether you need it
It signs the answers so a resolver can tell a real one from a forged one. What that fixes, and what it does not.
- Find and manage your domains
The list, the filters, and the three switches worth checking on every name you own.
- Renew a domain
Auto-renew, renewing by hand, and why renewing early never costs you the time you have already bought.
- Change who owns a domain
Three fields turn an edit into a change of ownership — and which route you pick decides whether the name is locked for 60 days.
- Cancel a transfer
There is a window, and which side of it you are on decides whether cancelling is a click or another transfer.
- Track a transfer in progress
What each status means, which clock is running, and the two endings people mistake for failure.
- GDPR and the public record
A European law changed what a WHOIS lookup returns for everybody, including in Bangladesh.
- Extensions with extra requirements
Most names need nothing but payment. These ask for a local presence, a document, or both.
- Hide your details with WHOIS privacy
What the public record shows, what privacy replaces it with, and the extensions where the registry decides instead of you.
- Reading a domain search result
Available, taken, premium, invalid — and the one result that means the registry did not answer.
- Moving a .uk, .nz or .bd domain
No auth code, no five-day wait, no extra year. A different mechanism that catches people out at checkout.