AUTHOR: PHILLIP D. NGUYEN
LAST UPDATED: 10/22/07

If you have bought / registered your domain else where, please read the following info carefully.  If your domain name (website address) is registered by DMS, then disregard the following info.

If your domain name is previously registered with another vendor such as Godaddy.com or Network Solution or Register.net, etc, then you have three hosting options:

Option 1 – website hosting but not emails. To do this, you need to login to your Registrar Account that you bought the domain name from such as Godaddy.com, Network Solutions, or Register.com. If you don’t know who has control of this account, you can go to www.godaddy.com and try to register for that domain name. You will be informed by the Registrar (in this case Godaddy.com) that such domain name has been registered or has been taken. It then gives you an option to find out who owns it. Follow a couple of steps and you will see the admin information. Sometimes this information is protected by private registration preferences but 98% of the time it’s public info. Once you have the admin login ID and Password, you can either send the login ID and password to your registrar record to us and we will update it for you or you can do it yourself by changing the A Record to our IP address: IP: 74.208.234.83.  What this does is now it points your website to our server and keep your email settings and email activities un-interrupted.

Option 2 - host both website and emails.  To do this, you need to change your existing DNS to our DNS (domain name server) as follow:
Main Name Server:   ns51.1and1.com
Secondary Name Server:  ns52.1and1.com

With this, DMS will host both your website and your pop3 email account(s) if there is any. There may be some disruption to your E-mail activities during the first 12 hours propagation period. If you changed the DNS, then you don’t need to change the A Record at your end (option 1).  You can either send the login ID and password to your registrar record to us and we will update it for you or you can do it yourself

Option 3 – host website, emails and domain register. To do this, you need to change your existing Registrar to DMS’s. We typically don’t recommend this option unless you have hundreds of domains.  You may keep your Registrar because each time you change this, it could take up to 14 days to complete and there is a great deal of paper work required for proof of ownership. It can only disrupt your E-mail activities.

PLEASE INFORM US OF YOUR OPTION SO THAT WE CAN ASSIST YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I have read and understand my options. 

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