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Changing Domain Names Hiccup

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Changing Domain Names Hiccup

4 years 11 months ago
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My home club, Toastmasters Plus, club #5677, changed its name recently to Good Morning Toastmasters. We had been using the custom domain name of toastmastersplus.org but after the name change we bought a new domain name, goodmorningtoastmasters.org and registered it though GoDaddy as we had done with our prior domain name.

Yesterday I attempted to switch domain names by first, changing the domain name entry in the Custom Domain Name field on the Admin Console. Then I worked with tech support at GoDaddy to disable the toastmastersplus domain name and make sure that the goodmorningtoastmasters.org domain name had all the correct DNS settings to connect with our site here at FreeToastHost.

It has been well over 24 hours since we made these changes and the new domain name does not appear to be connecting to our site. I'm afraid that my attempt to change the setting on the admin console here did not work and I do not know how to get back to the console to correct the error.

Is there a way for me to get to my club website's admin console to make this change in custom domain name or is this something that will have to happen through tech support here?

Thanks for your help.

John Labbe
Good Morning Toastmasters, #5677
goodmorningtoastmasters.org (formerly toastmastersplus.org)
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Re: Changing Domain Names Hiccup

4 years 11 months ago
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goodmorningtoastmasters.org is not setup correctly

the is no MX record
there is no A record for mail.goodmorningtoastmasters.org

Please follow the instructions in the documentation.
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/dns-settings-overview

3 Class A

domain.ext A 50.19.253.65 (This directs internet traffic using your custom domain name to the FreeToastHost server.)
www.domain.ext A 50.19.253.65 (This lets you use www. with your custom domain name.)
mail.domain.ext A 50.19.253.65 (This is used with the MX record below to enable email to get to the FreeToastHost server for processing.)

1 MX record for mail

domain.ext MX-10 mail.domain.ext (This tells the registrar how to direct email to an email address containing the custom domain name.)
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Re: Changing Domain Names Hiccup

4 years 11 months ago
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Brian,
Thanks for your quick reply. I have attached a screen print of the DNS manager page for our domain name as it stood after the changes I made yesterday. It looks to me like the records you cite are in place so I'm not sure where to go from here.
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You have 2 entries for WWW
Cname and A remove the Cname
The MX record is wrong

The A entry for www needs to be corrected to just www
The entry for mail needs to be corrected to just mail.
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Thanks, Brian.
I believe that I have made the corrections you listed. I hope the next step is to give the internet some time for the changes to be recognized.
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4 years 11 months ago
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Don't forget to put your new domain name in the custom domain box of the website admin console (basic settings)
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