HELP: how to fill co.cc zone records & URL forwarding

[andwan0]

I just signed up to x10hosting with a co.cc domain name. co.cc requires me to setup my domain and I typed in the two DNS servers given to me by x10hosting during sign-up. But I am not told what to fill out for the other steps: 2. Zone Records & 3. URL Forwarding.

Can someone enlighten me please on how to fill these out before the 48 hours time limit runs out.

Cheers

 

[xav0989]

You do not need to fill out those fields. Only the first (dns) is required. The 3 steps are actually three ways of doing the same thing.

 

[misson]

You probably don't need to worry about either of those. Zone records let you define additional DNS Resource Records (RRs) so you can declare the name of a mail server for your domain (MX RR), alias one name to another (CNAME RR), declare the name server (NS RR) and declare the network addresses for a given name (A RR).

URL forwarding uses HTTP to redirect from one page to another.

Addendum:
Setting up any RR will switch from using name server (option 1) to zone records (option 2). It looks like you can only use 1 of the 3 options to handle your co.cc domain.

 

[ejweb]

Yep; I believe xav0989 is correct. I registered a co.cc domain name and set it up to forward to a actual website I maintain. One thing I've also ran into; a couple of email domains (comcast, netzero, juno(?) seem to be blocking the co.cc domain name. For instance; I had the URL in my outgoing email message and after sending a notification/complaint to Netzero, they replied back that it contains a bad "URL" and considered spam, thus filtering it out. When I sent another email to my friend's netzero email address and removed the URL to the co.cc site; it didn't bounce back. It seems this free domain is starting to be abused (nothing new here)...

 

[xav0989]

It doesn't surprise me, though. You might want to create a gmail or other smtp mail account to send emails.