{"id":26,"date":"2018-03-29T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/uncategorized\/registering-a-domain\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:38:03","slug":"registering-a-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/uncategorized\/registering-a-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Registering a Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

This web hosting space currently utilizes both\u00a0subdomains\u00a0<\/b>of digitalscholarship.brown.edu and\u00a0top-level domains\u00a0<\/b>(a .com, .net, .org address) after initial sign up. You have the option to start with a free subdomain and later purchase a top-level domain<\/b> after using the space.\u00a0 You can do this by registering a domain with a service provider (we make a recommendation below, but any domain service provider should work) and adding it to your space as an Addon Domain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To start, you’ll need to register the domain. When choosing a domain we recommend keeping it all lower case, avoiding hyphens, keeping it short, and, of course, it will need to be a unique address. Reclaim Hosting has made the process of registering a domain quite simple, and the domain will work with very few additional steps due to the integration they have with our hosting system. To register a domain, click here<\/strong><\/a> and type in the domain you’d like to purchase.<\/p>\n

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After ensuring the domain is available for purchase, you’ll be prompted to select whether you’d like to protect the contact information associated with the domain. This option (referred to as ID Protect<\/a>) is free to add. We recommend checking this ID Protect box to protect your contact information.<\/p>\n

You’ll also be prompted for nameservers<\/strong> for the domain. If registering the domain through Reclaim Hosting, you can leave these with the default. If you decide to register the domain elsewhere, you’ll want to point the nameservers to ns1.reclaimhosting.com<\/strong> and\u00a0ns2.reclaimhosting.com<\/strong> in order for the domain to work with our system.<\/p>\n

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Once you’ve completed the checkout process with payment information, the domain will be registered automatically.<\/p>\n

The last step is to connect it to your existing cPanel hosting account. To do that, navigate to your cPanel >\u00a0Domains > Add-on Domains<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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On the following page, type your newly purchased domain in the\u00a0New Domain Name<\/strong>\u00a0field. (The\u00a0Subdomain<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Document Root<\/strong>\u00a0fields will populate automatically.)<\/p>\n

You can change the document root (the directory of your files) if you wish. Some folks like to remove the \u201c.com\u201d from the Document Root field for convenience when using FTP. The option to create an additional FTP account is present but not necessary. Once the domain is entered, click Add Domain<\/strong> to add the domain to your hosting account.<\/p>\n

At this point, the domain will now be hosted in your account and you can use it to install applications, upload files, and perform any number of other actions available to you in cPanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This web hosting space currently utilizes both\u00a0subdomains\u00a0of digitalscholarship.brown.edu and\u00a0top-level domains\u00a0(a .com, .net, .org address) after initial sign up. You have the option to start with a free subdomain and later purchase a top-level domain after using the space.\u00a0 You can do this by registering a domain with a service provider (we make a recommendation below, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.brown.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}