WHOIS Privacy Protection

In case you manage an Internet shop with an order page or a social network that has a member’s login form, then you’ll have to order an SSL certificate in order to protect these sections as well as to convince your clients that their details are safe. To get this done, you just have to activate an SSL certificate for a specific host from the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel.

Just press the Order SSL Certificate button, select the kind of certificate that you want – regular or wildcard, and fill in the necessary information. After that press the Order button and we will give you your certificate’s details.

If you need to point your domain name to some other web site or a subdomain to another section of your website, we have the most suitable solution for your requirements. You will no longer need to resort to URL forwarding approaches – you can perform these tasks via our handy domain name redirection tool.

All you need to do to redirect your domain name is define where it should lead. Our intelligent system will do the rest and your domain will begin to point to the preferred location straight away.

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.

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.

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.

In case you have a standalone domain name with Host Mates, and yet you also desire to take advantage of our cloud hosting plans, you’ll be able to do this at any given monent with just several simple clicks of the mouse. You will retain your Control Panel and will also be able to manage your domains, web sites and billing transactions from one place.

Also, you’ll be able to take advantage of all the bonuses associated with our cloud hosting packages, including a cost–free domain name registration option.

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.

Your domain name’s WHOIS info shows your official contact details and it needs to be kept accurate all the time. In case your e–mail changes, or if you desire to transfer the ownership of your domain to somebody else, you will need to update your current WHOIS info straight away.

With the point–and–click Domain Manager tool, you’ll be able to quickly change the WHOIS information for one or multiple domain names simultaneously! All the changes that you’ve made will be reflected live momentarily! Please don’t forget that not all domain extensions support this functionality, so first see on our website if this feature is offered for the domain name that you mean to update.