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Good morning, This is not a request for action but an inquiry into FTH domain vs custom domains. Currently our club 3074 First Burlington uses a domain firstburlingtontoastmasters.org provided by a third party. This has proven to be problematic as it conflicts with the security provided by FTH. We are thinking of not renewing at the end of the contract in August. My understanding the domain name convention of FTH is <clubnumber> toastmasters.org which while effective does not provide the "visibility of the club name. I also see several clubs which are listed as <clubname>toastmasters.com who also use FTH
My question is is the last domain name available through FTH or this again a custom domain we would have to have provided by a third party
Your assistance is greatly appreciated

Guy

1) we are NOT toastmasters.org

2) the sub-domain we provide is 3074.toastmastersclubs.org with is always active whether you have a custom domain or not.

3) Please read the documentation on alias and custom domains
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/website-alias
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/a...whats-the-difference

Also: support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/d...tical-considerations

I am not seeing any issues w/ your custom domain. Are you still seeing issues?

Thank you for your email.
1) But are you toastmasterclubs.org (or .com) that would be acceptable.
2) Understood while functional not as "visible" for marketing to general public.
3) From what I understand if we went with an alias would the potential of
firstburlingtontoastmasterclubs.org (or.com) be possible

Thanks again
Guy

While there are no current issues with our domain there have been regular "conflict issues" with the security of FTH so if we can have a visible public club name possibly through an alias (I have made inquiries in separate comment) that would be a simpler arrangement.

Thanks
Guy

Alias are not domain names, www is not permitted if you use an alias.
You could use firstburlington.toastmasterclubs.org, if it is not used by another club.

GTripp wrote:

While there are no current issues with our domain there have been regular "conflict issues" with the security of FTH

Ok, come on... this is nonsense. The reason you were getting security issues is because you did not have your DNS set up properly per our documented requirements (support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/dns-settings-overview) which prevented the automatic generation of a HTTPS certificate. support.toastmastersclubs.org/2011-10-23...ustom-domain-warning
If no cert, of course your browser is going to complain about security issues.

You seem to have the DNS set correctly now, you have a cert now... are you getting browser warnings of any security issues now?

Note that I am not suggesting you should continue with the custom domain if you do not really want to. If you do not want to be bothered with having to properly configure the DNS records and having to renew the domain subscription every so often, then yeah, maybe a custom domain is not the best fit for your club. Many clubs get by just fine with a website alias approach.

Thank you for your support and assistance. I re-read my earlier inquiries and I wanted to clarify one of the posts. When I wrote "conflict issues with FTH security" our domain provider indicated they were not compatible with the cloudflare security of FTH. As our renewal comes up later this month as a club we have decided to not renew our domain name and go with an alias with FTH.
Thanks again

Guy

We don't use cloudflare so not sure how your registrar is set up but the issue is not here. Your Registrar was not broadcasting the correct IP, everything seems to be working now.

These are correct.
firstburlingtontoastmasters.org. 3600 IN A 50.19.253.65
mail.firstburlingtontoastmasters.org. 3600 IN A 50.19.253.65
firstburlingtontoastmasters.org. 3600 IN MX 0 mail.firstburlingtontoastmasters.org