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We are happy to inform you that we do support Google Adsense. With it, you will be able to take advantage of this advertising service with any of your domains that use our nameservers.
"Reverse DNS" provides the ability to lookup an IP address and find out which domain name it is associated with.  This is useful because many SMTP servers do a reverse DNS check before accepting mail in order to prevent SPAM. The only party that tru...
In order to change the authoritative nameservers on your Sitelutions-registered domain name to our nameservers, simply login to your Sitelutions account, navigate to the Domain Control Center, and click the check box next to the domain name which you'd li...
Sitelutions is designed to act as your sole DNS provider -- this means that Sitelutions DNS servers cannot send or receive updates from outside of our network. This streamlined system makes our system more secure for our users. Besides, there's absolutely...
Due to BIND's history of exploits, bugs, and insecurities, we are proud to say that we do NOT use BIND.We use a custom DNS solution that enables us to provide high-quality DNS service which is far more secure than BIND-based DNS. Our system also allows an...
If you'd like to change the nameservers of a domain registered by Sitelutions, please follow these steps: Log in to your Sitelutions account Click on "Domain Control" near the middle of the page of the Account Control Center Check the box next to t...
Typically when this happens, it does not relate to our configuration or a problem on our end. Do the following: * Attempt to ping your site, or if you are familiar with the UNIX "dig" tool, dig using our nameservers to be sure we are returning t...
If you are trying to run a web server but your ISP is blocking port 80 (web connections run over port 80), users will not be able to connect to your site.    Good news!  You can use Sitelutions to help you run a web server anyway! First...
Please read this if you have modified DNS settings recently but your domain name or certain host names ("www", "mail", etc.) are not yet working. DNS is a complex system. Despite the fact that our system propogates updates instantly to our global...
If your ISP is blocking port 80, and you'd like for people to be able to access www.yourdomain.com and get to your server at home, please do the following:   1) Setup your home web server to run on another port.  In this example we'll use port...
Many registrars and registries, such as deNIC of Germany and seNic / nic-se of Sweden as well as others often have very strict rules with regard to the Start of Authority, or SOA records tied to domain names. These registrars/registries will often compla...
  I'm having problems doing Dynamic DNS Updates using DynSite. While our dynamic DNS services are extremely easy-to-use and reliable, many of our users have problems because they've setup their DNS update software incorrectly. If you're having a ...
SETTING UP MAIL (MX RECORD) FOR YOUR DOMAIN WHILE USING SITELUTIONS DNS. If you are using Sitelutions DNS, setting up mail routing for your domain is simple. First, you must have a mail server accepting mail for your domain name. This is a server t...
If you use our DNS service, as well as Google's mail service, you may be interested in utilizing domain authentication, which helps servers identify legitimate mail coming from your domain. It is possible to achieve a Google DKIM setup with our DNS servi...
DOMAIN PARKING AND DEFAULT CNAME PROPERTIES When you add a domain, Your CNAME record in your DNS is set to "domainpark.sitelutions.com" by default to park your domain to Sitelutions. This is a feature to keep your domain name's website available an...
Sitelutions supports wildcard DNS records for domains that you own.  If you'd like to create a wildcard record, create a wildcard host entry such as *.domain.com (host name would be "*" -- no quotes) in the URL & DNS Control Center.Then feel free...
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