Posted by Joe Oldak on

Firstly to clarify a few of things:

  • Domain names are bought and managed via a registrar - like 123-reg or GoDaddy etc (there are lots - too many to list here!).
  • You manage the DNS from the registrar's control panel.
  • You can use this to create a DNS record pointing to e-voice's IP address - which is 83.136.248.56 (not 46.20....)

Importantly, e-voice is NOT a registrar. You can't register domains or manage your DNS from e-voice.

e-voice is just a website provider, and doesn't care which registrar you use for your domain. Use whichever is cheapest or most convenient, and just set the DNS records for your e-voice website.

The only reason anyone needs an IPS tag is to move your domain between registrars.

The only reason you would want to do this is if a different registrar is considerably "better" than the one you're currently using - e.g., they're cheaper or have an easier to use control panel or whatever - pick your own definition of "better"!

So, with that in mind...

From an e-voice perspective, there's no reason for you to need an IPS tag to set up your domain to work with your e-voice website. All you need to do is update the DNS records.

HOWEVER - if your existing hostname provider doesn't allow you to set custom DNS records, then you could switch to a different registrar in order to gain this feature. That would mean switching to 123-reg or GoDaddy or the registrar of your choice, and then once switched you'd use the DNS settings from their control panel to point the domain to e-voice.

I hope that helps?

Cheers

Joe

 

Posted by Hett Village Hall on

Hi Joe,

I have migrated the domain across and it is now saying that the website is not secure?  What do i need to do to solve this?

thanks

Victoria

Posted by Joe Oldak on

The problem is that there's an AAAA record in the DNS pointing to the wrong place, as well as the correct A record.

Delete the AAAA record, then wait a while, and the certificate should be automaticaly created.

Thanks

Joe