Registering Standard (Second Level) Domains

To create a new standard domain (.com, .net, .org, etc.):

1. Enter your desired domain name into the field after the www part:

   

2. Choose the top level domain from the drop-down box: com, .org, .net, etc. and click Submit.
3. Enter your contact and billing information. Agree to the charges if any.

   Based on these data, the system generates a domain registration request and submits it to the domain registration company.

Go through subsequent steps that allow you to configure new domain as:

• Full-featured web/mail hosting domain
• Web hosting/mail service alias for an existing domain
• Domain without web hosting/mail service to be considered later either for hosting or for aliasing

Type of the domain being registered will depend on the options you choose:

Transfering Domains

Transfer domain already registered from outside your CP with any registrar to OpenSRS or to Enom. This will update domain’s info and change its DNS servers in the OpenSRS or Enom databases to the Parallels H-Sphere ones.

Transferred domains are registered with OpenSRS or Enom for the period chosen at transfer plus the time remaining from registration with original registrar.

Note: You can’t transfer domains that are already in use in the system. Nor can you transfer third level domains if they use a second level domain owned by another user.

Go through subsequent steps that allow you to configure new domain as:

• Full-featured web/mail hosting domain
• Web hosting/mail service alias for an existing domain
• Domain without web hosting/mail service to be considered later either for hosting or for aliasing

Hosting Existing Domains

Choose this option to host a domain registered outside Parallels H-Sphere if you’d:

• prefer to contact the registrar personally rather than apply changes automatically;
• like to register a non-standard or regional domain, which can’t be registered automatically (e.g. your_domain.de);
• prefer a different registrar than the one used by your hosting provider.

In either case, you need to make sure that the domain name is valid. Enter it into the box, omitting the www part.

Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification with the information to send to your domain name registration company. They will make appropriate changes on the root DNS servers, and within a couple of days your domain will be accessible at the new IP address. Right after registering the domain in your user CP, your site will be available by the instant domain alias.

Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase a domain name from a domain registration company. Second, you register this domain name with your web hosting provider and get your new IP address. It is only then that your site becomes available to all Internet community. This is true for both standard and nonstandard domains. In case of standard domain names, however, the registration process is automated.

Creating Third Level Domains

Third level domains are registered on your provider’s DNS server. You don’t need to register a third level domain with a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third level domain, it will contain your provider’s domain name. E.g. if your provider’s domain name is besthosting.com, and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel, the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.besthosting.com.

Third level domain registration is available only if it’s allowed under the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains have same features as second level domains.

To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain name in the Domain name field. Choose provider’s domain name to the right and click Submit.