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Step 1:
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Log in to the 1&1 Control Panel using your Customer ID OR domain name and your password.
If you have only one package, you will land on the Administration page. If you have more than one package, select the package in question to reach its Administration page.
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Step 2:
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Click the Domains link from the Domains & Webspace panel.
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Step 3:
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Click the New button above the list of domains.
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Step 4:
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Enter the domain name that you wish to use with the 1&1 services but uses non-1&1 name servers.
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Step 5:
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Select Point your domain to 1&1 name servers and keep your current Registrar. You are selecting to perform a DNS transfer simply so that the domain will be added to the 1&1 Control Panel. You will not actually make any change in name servers to your domain however.
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Step 6:
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1&1 will attempt to detect your domain's current mail servers. Make sure to select Use the 1&1 mail servers.
Click the Next button to proceed.
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An overview page will be shown with the 1&1 name servers to use.
Disregard the name servers listed as you will not be using the 1&1 name servers
Simply click the Order button to complete the process and add the domain to the 1&1 Control Panel. Please note that there is no charge for the DNS transfer process.
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Step 8:
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You should receive a notice if the process was successful. Click the Go To Overview button to continue.
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Step 9:
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The domain overview should show the domain added and listed as an external type of domain.
The Status will read DNS settings incomplete with registrar because the domain is not using the 1&1 name servers. We will need to make another change to get rid of this status message. Proceed to the next step.
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Step 10:
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You must know the current DNS addresses for the domain for the next steps. To double-check the addresses, check the WHOIS information for your domain at
http://who.is/
by typing your domain name into the search bar on the website and clicking the Search button.
Search for the Name Servers section and write down all the name servers listed.
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Step 11:
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Go back to the 1&1 Control Panel.
Check the box next to the domain to select it and then click the DNS button above the list of domains.
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Step 12:
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Click the Edit button next to Name Server Settings
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Step 13:
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Select My name server from the drop-down box in the Basic DNS Settings section.
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Step 14:
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Enter all the name servers used for the domain in the text boxes in the Advanced DNS Settings section.
When all have been entered, click the OK button to save your changes.
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Step 15:
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A notice that your changes are being applied is shown.
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Step 16:
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Last Step (IMPORTANT):
You will now need to update your DNS settings with your DNS host so that this domain uses a CNAME to the "technical subdomain" that was included with your 1&1 hosting package. The technical subdomain should look similar to s111111111.onlinehome.us (if you do not have a technical subdomain in your package, simply use one of the other domains in that package instead).
So using this guide as an example, we would update the DNS settings for 1and1help.com at its DNS host so that the CNAME s111111111.onlinehome.us is used for 1and1help.com |
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