2007-06-16

Parking a Domain

Message from cPanel when domain is successfully parked:

Parked Domain Additions

Using nameservers with the following IPs: 67.43.9.227,67.43.9.226 Bind reconfiguring on host using rndc
Created DNS entry for americanwifi.us
americanwifi.us was successfully parked on top of weedllc.net 

This went pretty smoothly:

  • On the first try, the cPanel utility came back with an "number of parked domains allowed exceeded" message - had to go back and add domain parking to the account using Web Host Manager (WHM).
  • … on the second try, the cPanel utility to Park a Domain" failed with an error indicating that the americanwifi.us domain was using name servers that were not on the weedllc.net domain, and so the domain could not be parked there;
  • … went to the godaddy.com control panel interface (GoDaddy is the registrar for americanwifi.us) and set the name servers for the domain
  • … the parking maneuver was accomplished on the third try, after setting the number of parked domains allowed for weedllc.net and the DNS server records for americanwifi.us
  • There was not real waiting for any of these steeps - the longest wait time was for godaddy.com to update the domain domain records for americanwifi.us
  • Also, had to "unlock" the domain record for americanwifi.us before changing the name server record(s). Not sure if it can be re-locked now that the name servers are off godaddy.com
  • New name servers of record for americanwifi.us are ns1.weedllc.net and ns2.weedllc.net
  • The DNS changes for americanwifi.us seem to have already propagated at this time: 2007-06-16 13:39 EST