My company bought a domain before I started with them. The person they bought it from gave them login information to the wholesaler of the domain and then is essentially not helping after that. When I login, I can change the namespaces, which are currently pointing at the person who was hosting our old site.

How do I point my domain to my IP address? I do not understand the purpose of a namespace.

Thanks.

Namespaces? I think you mean nameservers.

Nameservers just tell the domain where the dns is hosted.

If you want to point your domain elsewhere you can do so by pointing the nameservers to your hosting companies nameservers. i.e.

ns1.bluehost.com
ns2.bluehost.com

Or if you don't want to point the nameservers (dns) and only want to point the hosting then you can do so by pointing the A record in your DNS zone file i.e

@ -> <your ip address>


What hosting company are you with?

This post was edited by SelfTaught on Apr 24 2014 11:00am

totally thought with was going to be a php thread lol

tell us your hosting company, we'll tell you what to set your name servers to.

I'm using tucows for the domain. I am hosting at home with a comcast connection. Do I need to call comcast?

This post was edited by xandumx on Apr 26 2014 08:31pm

are you hosting on linux / windows server / os x ?

are you using a stack of some sort such as LAMP, MAMP, or WAMP?

if not.. have you decided which dns and web serving software you're going to use? (Bind9, Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, etc)

and, I'd recommend buying a static ip address from comcast so you don't have to repoint / configure your dns every time the dynamic one changes..

This post was edited by SelfTaught on Apr 26 2014 10:01pm

not his question

not his question

not his question

gl with that


answer to your question
use your registrars dns servers
create an A record for @ if it doesn't already exist, @ may also be yourdomain.com depending on the registrar
@ will point to your ip
create a CNAME from www.yourdomain.com to @ (or again yourdomain.com if @ is not used) if it does not already exist
If www.yourdomain.com exists as an A record, point it to your IP or recreate it as a cname


example of what things would look like
format is record name, TTL, record type, origin


This post was edited by 0n35 on Apr 27 2014 09:33am