Basic Explanation

Domain names comprise the web address used to access a website. For example, within the address http://www.thewebconsole.com/, "thewebconsole.com" is the domain name.

Domain names come in a variety of extensions (also known as Top Level Domains or TLDs for short). TLDs form the end part of your domain, andcouldincluding .com, .ca, .net, .org, .biz, .info

Extended Explanation

A domain name, also known as a web address, is actually an alias associated to an IP address.

An IP address consists of numbers which together form the location of a particular website located on a server connected to the Internet.

They work in similar fashion to phone numbers that get designated to phone lines. The reason why domain names were implemented is because they offer branding and are much easier to remember.

For example, it is much easier to remember and type in 'thewebconsole.com' than an IP address consisting of numbers such as '12.343.422.243'.

The answer depends on whether we are looking after your:

emails and website, or
just your website.

Emails and Website

Before you change the nameservers

Before you change your domain name to point to our server:

• Are your email addresses setup on our server?
• Is the website ready to go live, eg: Have you checked for spelling mistakes etc...
• Have you contacted us to ensure that we have done everything on our side to make sure the domain will change without any issues?
• Are you aware that the change can take up to 48 hours? This means that you should carefully choose the time to make the change to avoid delays in important emails.

To make the change

1. To point your domain through to our server, you will need to have access to edit your domain details. When you originally purchased the domain, the domain hosting company would have sent you some details on access to make changes.
2. Once you have logged in to your domain management tool, you will need to change the nameservers to:
   
   "ns1.thewebconsole.com" and
   "ns2.thewebconsole.com"
    
3. If your Domain Registrar requires that you place an IP Address along side the nameservers, see this information below:
   
   "ns1.thewebconsole.com - 54.206.16.34" and
   "ns2.thewebconsole.com - 202.131.94.185"

Change will usually take between 12 - 48 hours to propagate through the worldwide Internet.

Just the website

To point just the website service of your domain name to our servers, you need to make the following changes:

• Point the A-Record to 202.131.94.139 (eg. domain.com -> A -> 202.131.94.139)
• Point the WWW-Record of the domain to elbtwc.com (eg. www.domain.com -> CNAME -> elbtwc.com)

This change will take between 2 - 12 hours.

Yes, you can transfer a domain to us so that we can manage it for you.

For this, you will need to send us the;

• AUTHINFO (the password for the domain). You can get this by contacting the company you originally registered the domain through.
• Domain Name - What domain are we taking over for you
• Registrar - Who did you originally register the domain through.

You can point multiple domains through to your main one. Each extra domain is called an "alias".

We can setup the alias to act as a copy for both web and mail ie: if you have an email address, example@thewebconsole.com and we alias the domain thewebconsole2.com, any emails sent to example@thewebconsole2.comwill be forwarded to example@thewebconsole.com