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Numbered walk-throughs for hosting, domain names, mailboxes and WordPress. 18 guides in the lineup, each one brought up to speed for 2026.

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The complete how-to lineup

Adding a Second Domain to One Account

Run a second registration from the same account without losing its records, its certificate or its renewal date — beginner level, about 10 minutes.

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Adding a Subdomain

A record in your own zone, a document root and a certificate of its own — no registration and no fee. Beginner level, about 5 minutes.

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Changing Nameservers

The registrar edit, the zone you rebuild first, and the DNSSEC record that has to come off before either — beginner level, about 5 minutes plus propagation.

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Choosing a Domain Name

Choosing on registrability, defensibility and spelling rather than cleverness — beginner level, about an evening of thought.

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Editing DNS Records

Which record type promises what, why the apex behaves differently, and how to change a row without breaking its neighbours — beginner level, about 5 minutes per record.

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Forwarding a Spare Name

DNS, then the account, then the certificate, then the rule — the order a forward has to be built in — beginner level, about 5 minutes.

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Keeping a Name From Expiring

The registry sequence from grace to open registration, and the ten minutes of setup that keeps you out of it — beginner level.

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Moving a Site to a New Name

What the old name still has to do, which records follow the site, and why the redirect is permanent — intermediate level, about an afternoon plus monitoring.

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Parking a Spare Name

Alias, redirect or holding page, plus the certificate and the mail decision each spare still needs — beginner level, about 5 minutes each.

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Pointing a Name at Your Hosting

Delegation at the registrar or one record in the zone — which to change, in what order, and what the certificate is waiting for. Beginner level, about 10 minutes plus propagation.

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Publishing an SPF Record

One TXT record, published in the zone your nameservers actually answer from — intermediate, about 10 minutes.

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Registering a Domain Name

What a registration actually gives you, which contact record proves it, and the verification clock that starts at checkout — beginner level, about 10 minutes.

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Setting MX Records

What an MX record may contain, what the priority number means, and how to change the set without losing a morning — intermediate level, about 10 minutes plus propagation.

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Starting a Blog on a Name You Own

Subfolder or subdomain, apex or www, and who the registrant record names — beginner, about an afternoon.

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Transferring a Domain

What a transfer moves, the codes and locks in the way, and the zone that can die with the old account — beginner level, about 15 minutes of work and up to 5 days to complete.

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TXT Records for Verification

The zone it must land in, the host-field trap, and the one record type you may only publish once — beginner level, about 5 minutes per service.

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Watching DNS Propagate

Why caches expire rather than data travelling, how to query the authority directly, and the TTL rule that decides the wait — beginner level, about 5 minutes.

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WHOIS Privacy on a Name

What a public lookup shows today, what a privacy service adds, and who can still reach the registrant — beginner level, about 2 minutes.

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