Domain Transfer
So, compared to a few years ago, I’ve become extremely proficient with managing domains and getting web sites set up. I recently switched my domain from nine-one-eight.com to thedonfiore.com. The whole process took me less than an hour.
Basically, I bought thedonfiore.com from GoDaddy. I immediately went to ZoneEdit.com and added it to my DNS, and pointed my DNS to my host… also added all the Google mail MX records, and forwarded mail.thedonfiore.com to my Google Apps. After that I headed over to my host and added thedonfiore.com as a parked domain to the transition would go smooth. Set up a new Google Apps account for it, and set up was all set.
Because it takes about 24 hours for a new domain to set up in the TLD registry, I added thedonfiore.com to my hosts file so I could start developing and testing it right then. Everything went really well… woke up in the morning, removed it from my hosts file and everything was good to go, email was also good go. All was well in the world.
