Domains & DNS articles

Domains & DNS 475 How to check a domain DNS Checking a domain’s DNS means finding out where it currently points. It is the first step whenever a site will not...
Domains & DNS 375 How to find the hosting DNS Whenever you need to point a domain at your Interweb hosting, you will be asked for the nameservers - also called...
Domains & DNS 411 How to configure a domain DNS Configuring DNS means telling the world where your domain should point. There are two levels, and it is worth...
Domains & DNS 382 How to change the DNS of a domain already in use Changing the DNS of a domain that already works takes more care than setting up a new one. Here you are not starting...
Domains & DNS 641 How long DNS changes take to propagate You changed the nameservers or a DNS record and nothing happened yet. That's normal - DNS changes are not instant....
Domains & DNS 452 How to transfer a domain to us Bringing a domain you registered elsewhere over to us. The transfer keeps the time you already paid for - it is...
Domains & DNS 500 Registry, registrar and registrant: who owns the domain? When you register a domain, three parties are involved. Knowing who does what avoids misunderstandings - above all...
Domains & DNS 527 How to choose the right domain for your business Your domain is your company's address on the internet and, in practice, the name people will look you up by. It's...
Domains & DNS 484 Domain vs web hosting: what is the difference? These are two different things, bought separately, and mixing them up is one of the most common confusions when...
Domains & DNS 653 .ao domain extensions: which ones exist and who can register them National extensions immediately say where your company is. Angola has several, each with an intended audience. The...
Domains & DNS 625 Transfer a .ao domain from DNS.AO: step by step Many Angolan companies registered their domain directly with DNS.AO, Angola's national domain registry, and over...
Domains & DNS 667 Expired domain: what happens and how long you have to recover it A domain that expires does not vanish that instant, but it will not wait for you either. It moves through stages -...
Domains & DNS 628 Typo in the domain name: can it be fixed after registering? It happens: the domain was registered with an extra letter, a missing hyphen, or on the wrong extension. The next...
Domains & DNS 405 WHOIS: what it shows about your domain and how to check it WHOIS is the public record of who registered what. Whenever a domain is registered, the registrant, the dates and...
Domains & DNS 625 Nameservers: what they are and which ones to use with us Nameservers answer one simple question: who is in charge of this domain's DNS? They are the master switch - they...
Domains & DNS 312 DNS records explained: A, CNAME, MX, TXT and TTL If nameservers say who is in charge, DNS records say what. They are simple lines, each pointing part of the domain...
Domains & DNS 1,028 I have registered a domain: what now? What is included and what is not Registering a domain gives you the name - and only the name. That is what lies behind almost every question that...
Domains & DNS 581 Registered the domain and it still does not open: waiting, broken, or missing hosting You registered the domain, paid, got the confirmation - and the address still does not open. This happens for three...
Domains & DNS 290 Proving the domain is yours: TXT verification records Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Meta Business and dozens of other services all ask for the same thing before...
Domains & DNS 326 Transferring your domain to another provider The domain is yours. If you want to move it to another provider, that is your right and we will not stand in the way...
Domains & DNS 206 IP addresses explained: static, dynamic, private, public, shared and dedicated An IP address is a device’s address on the internet. Without one, data has nowhere to go - like a letter with no...
Domains & DNS 258 Pointing a domain at your own VPS: nameservers and glue records You have a domain with us and a server of your own, and you want the domain to open the site that lives there. There...
Domains & DNS 263 How to change the domain on your hosting plan Every hosting plan has a primary domain: the name you typed when you ordered. It names the account, it owns the...
Domains & DNS 273 Domain prices: how to read the table The table on the domain pricing page shows four columns side by side, and that is deliberate: what a name costs to...
Domains & DNS 332 Domain renewal: deadlines, reminders and what you lose A domain is not bought once and kept forever. It is rented in terms, usually a year at a time, and it goes back on...
Domains & DNS 238 AI domain ideas: how to use them and what to expect The tool does three things, in this order: it reads the description you write about your business, it proposes...
Domains & DNS 196 Pointing your domain to us: nameservers, step by step Pointing a domain means telling the world who answers for it. You do it once, in four or five clicks, and it is the...
Domains & DNS 288 When the domain is registered with us: what changes in the nameservers If you registered the domain with us, it came with our nameservers already set, and they are these: dns1.interweb.ao...
Domains & DNS 262 When the domain is registered somewhere else The site is with us, but the domain was registered with another company. It is a very common situation and there is...
Domains & DNS 174 Dynamic DNS: a fixed name for an address that keeps changing You want to reach the camera at the warehouse, the office file server, or the computer that stays on at home. You...
Domains & DNS 224 Changing nameservers at a registrar that is not us: the map every panel follows The domain was bought somewhere else and the hosting is with us. For the site to open here you have to go into their...
Domains & DNS 281 GoDaddy: where the nameservers are and where the zone is GoDaddy is one of the largest registrars in the world, and plenty of our customers’ domains sit there. This article...
Domains & DNS 246 Namecheap: where the nameservers are and where the zone is Namecheap is a registrar widely used by people buying international domains. This article tells you what to look for...
Domains & DNS 340 Registro.br: pointing a .br domain to us A .br domain does not work like the others, which is why this article is not like the others. The Brazilian national...
Domains & DNS 242 Locaweb: pointing a domain to us This article is deliberately short. We hold no Locaweb account and we are not going to describe screens we have not...
Domains & DNS 233 Other registrars: the words to look for in any panel There are hundreds of registrars and no two panels look alike. Underneath the design, though, it is always the same...
Domains & DNS 279 I changed the DNS and nothing shows yet: TTL, cache, and the four places to check You changed the nameservers, or you changed a record, and you still see the old place. This is almost never a fault:...
Domains & DNS 240 Domain with us, site somewhere else: what changes and what does not This is the reverse of the other cases: the domain is registered with us and the site is going to live somewhere...
Domains & DNS 186 SRV records: what they are for, and how to create one An A record says where a machine is. An SRV record says more: which machine, on which port, and in what order...
Domains & DNS 105 Pointing a subdomain to another server or service: A record or CNAME You want the main site to stay with us and shop.asuaempresa.ao to open somewhere else: a shop platform, a status...
Domains & DNS 140 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN: what it means and what to check The browser says “this site can’t be reached” and, in small print, DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN (or...
Domains & DNS 67 Short .ao names: under three characters are not sold, and three has a special price The short answer: in the .ao extensions we sell, a name with fewer than three characters cannot be registered. A...
Domains & DNS 55 IPv6 and AAAA records: do you need one, and when adding one breaks your site The short answer: an AAAA record points your name to an IPv6 address, just as the A record points to an IPv4 one. It...
Domains & DNS 55 DNSSEC: what it is, and what it changes for your domain The short answer: DNSSEC is a digital signature on DNS answers. It lets whoever asks “where is this domain?” confirm...
Domains & DNS 70 Pointing your domain at a social page or WhatsApp link: redirects on your hosting The short answer: if you have a hosting account, cPanel has a Redirects tool that sends whoever types your domain to...
Domains & DNS 85 Checking DNS from the command line: dig and nslookup, and how to read the answer The short answer: dig and nslookup ask the DNS directly what it answers for a name. They are the quickest way to...
Domains & DNS 76 The domain you want is already taken: what you can do, and what to avoid The short answer: a name that is already registered cannot be registered again. But “taken” means different things:...
Domains & DNS 67 Accents and special characters in domain names: what is allowed, and what to do instead The short answer: an ordinary domain name can only contain the letters a to z without accents, digits and hyphens....
Domains & DNS 51 Registrar lock: what it protects, when to unlock it and when to leave it on The short answer: the registrar lock is a padlock on the domain that stops it being transferred to another provider...
Domains & DNS 59 Your domain contact details: why they must be real, and how to keep them up to date The short answer: when you register a domain, your details (name, e-mail, phone, address) are tied to it as the...
Domains & DNS 58 Changing who owns a domain: a contact update or a change of registrant, and what to expect The short answer: changing the holder’s e-mail or phone is a contact update. Changing who the holder is (from a...
Domains & DNS 70 A domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows...
Domains & DNS 81 A wildcard DNS record (*): what it does, and when it gets in the way The short answer: a wildcard record, written with an asterisk (*), answers for any subdomain that has no record of...
Domains & DNS 56 The SOA record and its serial number: what each field means and when it matters The short answer: the SOA (Start of Authority) is the first record in every DNS zone. It names the primary...
Domains & DNS 55 CNAME on the bare domain: why it is not allowed and what to use instead The short answer: a CNAME says “this name is really that other name”. The DNS standard forbids a CNAME on a name...
Domains & DNS 65 Reading a whole DNS zone line by line: names, trailing dots, TTL and the @ sign The short answer: a DNS zone is a plain-text list of records, one per line, in a standard format (the “zone file”...
Domains & DNS 56 MX records in depth: priority, several mail servers and the mistakes that lose e-mail The short answer: the MX record tells other servers where to deliver your domain’s mail. Each MX has a priority (a...
Domains & DNS 45 TXT records in practice: long values, quotes and several records on one name The short answer: a TXT record holds text, and it is where SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the domain verifications for Google,...
Domains & DNS 56 What DNS propagation really is: caches that expire, not a change that travels The short answer: when you save a DNS record, the change takes effect at once on the servers that hold the zone (the...
Domains & DNS 45 Lowering the TTL before a migration: the timeline that keeps the switch short The short answer: the TTL tells every cache how long it may keep an answer, counted from the moment it asked. So at...
Domains & DNS 51 Flushing DNS on phones, browsers and routers: the caches ipconfig does not reach The short answer: ipconfig /flushdns and its Mac and Linux equivalents (they are in clearing the cache) only clear...
Domains & DNS 49 Asking different DNS resolvers: how to read a propagation checker without panic The short answer: an online propagation checker asks the same name of a list of public resolvers around the world...
Domains & DNS 50 A new record that still does not exist for some people: negative caching and the SOA The short answer: resolvers do not only store answers that exist. When they ask for a name that does not exist...
Domains & DNS 9 Our nameservers, and what to do when saving them gives an error The short answer: the Interweb Angola nameservers are dns1.interweb.ao dns2.interweb.ao dns3.interweb.ao...
Domains & DNS 5 Why a domain transfer is paid before it starts, and why it costs a year of renewal The short answer: a transfer is paid first because it is at the moment of the request that we pay the extension's...