How To Park a Domain and Send and Receive Email at The Same Time?

[Damion]

I want to park a domain at Sedo so it resolves to the parking landing page but at the same time the ability to send and receive email as well.

If this is possible how should i set this up?
My domain is at Moniker and hosting at Hostgator.

Your help is greatly appreciated. :tu:

 

[neroux]

Outgoing emails should always work. Incoming, if you dont assign their DNS servers to your domain, as well as you only need to assign the email servers to your MX record. If you use theirs you'd need to see whether they allow you to set the MX record for your domain.

 

[Damion]

Still on this

 

[neroux]

Well, above its all explained.

 

[Erdy]

Damion,
To do this you will have to use URL forwarding. As you know you can park a domain at sedo by either changing nameservers or by URL forwarding. So you pick the latter one.

The nameservers should be kept at the registrars, at moniker in you case.

The mail settings are done within your moniker account. I don't know the details because I have never done it myself but you do it that way. Cheers.

 

[Damion]

It's getting clearer I'll look into the MX records settings.

Thanks guys!

 

[Name Trader]

Yep. Don't use Sedo's servers. URL frame forward your domain to Sedo. See Sedo for instructions. That way you use Moniker's servers and their standard email forwarding will work.

 

[weblord]

you need to use freedns.afraid.org or any free dns hosting you like to set it up, you will set the NS and MX inside freedns.afraid.org, if your parking company offers cname (usually they do, you just need to ask them via email or inside their knowledgebase) then just set up the cname and mx (not the ns)

but if you don't know what you do, don't play with this, because your site will get loss in limbo

courtesy of freedns.afraid.org

Type: A - Point subdomain.domain.com to a hard coded IP Address. Most direct and straight forward option, also note any change you make in the FreeDNS program is reflected on the internet and made live immediately. The only way you will not see immediate results is if you have cached a query on your computer by looking it up PRIOR to configuring it in the FreeDNS program.

Type: MX - Point subdomain.domain.com to a mail server. These type of records are special for just mail servers, they can co-exist with A records, and their only use is for routing mail to a different location. All mail implementations check for this record first before attempting to route an e-mail message. If a MX record does not exist for a host, an e-mail delivery would be attempted directly to the IP that the hostname resolves to.

Type: AAAA - Point subdomain.domain.com to a IPv6 address. Useful for those who are using IPv6 on their personal networks or those who are using a IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel at home.

Type: CNAME - Point subdomain.domain.com to another hostname. Good for those who are using other dynamic DNS services. You can create a CNAME record to another host and whatever subdomain.domain.com you choose here will go to whatever IP address the CNAMEd host has.

Type: NS - Point subdomain.domain.com to another NAMESERVER. If you choose this option, then whatever subdomain.domain.com address you choose using FreeDNS will have to be configured and setup on the destination ADDRESS (nameserver) that you choose. This option basically means you are delegating a FreeDNS host to another DNS server all together, so when you choose this option you are telling every computer on the internet to ask the 'address' where subdomain.domain.com is located at. If the host you point an NS record to is not configured to answer for the subdomain.domain.com that you are using in FreeDNS then the subdomain.domain.com host will not resolve.

Type: TXT - Requested by users of the system, used by SPF spam rejecting system, see http://spf.pobox.com/wizard.html for more details.

Type: LOC - A means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System.

RFC1876 has the complete explanation.

To find your latitude/longitude location, you may find Map-O-Rama of use.

Type: RP - The Responsible Person RR.

RP has the following format:

RP <mbox-dname> <txt-dname>

Both RDATA fields are required in all RP RRs.

The first field, <mbox-dname>, is a domain name that specifies the mailbox for the responsible person.

The second field, <txt-dname>, is a domain name for which TXT RR's exist. A subsequent query can be performed to retrieve the associated TXT resource records at .

RFC1183 has the complete explanation.

It's getting clearer I'll look into the MX records settings.

Thanks guys!

 

[xpresto]

Thanks

you need to use freedns.afraid.org or any free dns hosting you like to set it up, you will set the NS and MX inside freedns.afraid.org, if your parking company offers cname (usually they do, you just need to ask them via email or inside their knowledgebase) then just set up the cname and mx (not the ns)

but if you don't know what you do, don't play with this, because your site will get loss in limbo

courtesy of freedns.afraid.org

Thanks, Weblord. That's what I needed to know too. I have some of my domains at registrars who doesn't allow to edit DNS records so using a free dns service should fix it.