Domains by Host Mates

The Domain Manager is a crucial part of our web hosting Control Panel and includes all the features that you need to manage your domain names. It features a well–designed interface via which you can edit DNS records, modify WHOIS settings, lock your domain or set up sub–domain names with a simple mouse click.

Through the Domain Manager you could even request more services such as Whois Privacy Protection and digital certificates.

Through our Domain Manager, you can effortlessly manage a ton of domains from just one place. You will gain access to a rich array of DNS controls and will also be able modify multiple domain names at once.

Plus, in case you also have a cloud hosting account with Host Mates, you’ll be able to manage both your domains and your web sites from one single location.

Via the Custom DNS section of the Domain Manager, you will be able to change various types of DNS resource records for your domains, among them A, AAAA, MX, NS, SRV, CNAME and TXT resource records. Setting a new record is very easy. Simply choose a domain name and specify the DNS record that you want. Any modification you’ve made will be reflected online within just one day. In case you want to recover the former record value, just press the Revert button.

The Custom DNS section also comprises a GeoIP location tool, which enables you to point people from a given geographical location to a specific language version of your website.

The WHOIS information associated with your domain name becomes freely available to everyone after the registration process itself. You’ll be able to elude that by activating an Whois Privacy Protection service for your domain name. With it, your own personal or corporate details, including your name, email and street address, will be substituted with fictional info. To order Whois Privacy Protection for your domain name, simply choose the domain and then click on the Whois Privacy Protection button to request the activation of this feature.

This given service is available with the majority of the generic and country–code top–level domain names that we are offering. Check out the TLD information page on our site to find out which domains are Whois Privacy Protection–eligible.

With the aid of the Wildcard DNS option, you will be able to make all your active subdomains load the main page of your web site. For example, if a person types in any.domain.com or smth.domain.com, they’ll go to http://domain.com/.

You might need the Wildcard DNS option for a multisite app such as Joomla^™ Multi–Site or WordPress.

To activate a wildcard domain name, navigate to the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel and press the Add Host button on the right. At the bottom of the list of options, you will see the Wildcard Domain tickbox.

With the Registrar Lock functionality enabled, you can be certain that your domain is secured against cyber–theft. Anybody who initiates an unsolicited domain name transfer will be immediately blocked and the domain transfer request – rejected.

In the event that, at one point, you choose to transfer your domain to another domain registrar, you’ll be able to unlock it with one single click. You will find the locking/unlocking functionality in the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel.

In every section of Host Mates’s web hosting Control Panel you will find a huge collection of informative how–to video presentations. They offer solutions to all commonly experienced issues and will reveal to you the right way to execute a certain operation.

You can also examine our F.A.Q. library, which includes comprehensive how–to guides and manuals. Or you can contact our 24/7 tech support team – the average tech support ticket response time is 20 minutes.

With the GeoIP location tool integrated into the Domain Manager, you’ll be able to point a particular language version of your site to a certain geographic market. It features an intuitive point & click interface where you don’t have to add any code. Simply insert the place of residence of your future visitors plus the URL that you’d like to open for those visitors.

For example, if you have a German version of your website at de.your–site.com, you will have to type it in the URL field and select Germany as a destination market. In this way, each time a visitor from Germany goes to your website, they’ll see de.your–site.com rather than your–site.com.

To establish an online brand, sometimes you have to register several different domain names at once – new–brand.com, new–brand.net, and so on. For this reason, Host Mates offers an intuitive bulk domain registration interface. It allows you to register unlimited domain names simultaneously.

You could use the exact same WHOIS information for each and every domain name or insert different WHOIS info for the domain names that you desire to register.