Quick Tip: Protect Your Personal Info with Domain Privacy

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Imagine you’re creating a website with a new domain name.

When you register your domain name at a domain name registrar, you’re required to provide your contact information.

Which includes your name, physical address, email address, and phone number.

Did you know that information is displayed publicly when someone searches for details about your domain name?

Yikes!

That’s the kind of information marketing firms, scammers, and spammers love. Continue reading Quick Tip: Protect Your Personal Info with Domain Privacy

Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

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Imagine you’ve moved your website to a new web host, a faster host with better customer support.

Which means you need to update your domain records to point to your new host.

You log into your domain registrar and update the records for the new host.

And wait.

You know it can take a while for the changes to propagate (the time it takes for your changes to take effect).

Read on to learn about DNS and steps you can take to help propagation to go faster. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes

Quick Tip: Reset Time to Live (TTL) After Changing Domain Records

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Last night at our West Metro Detroit WordPress meetup, we spoke about web hosting and changing hosts.

One of the side conversations was about updating domain records when you change your host.

And what you can do to make the process run quickly and smoothly. Continue reading Quick Tip: Reset Time to Live (TTL) After Changing Domain Records