Domain Name Services

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Domain Hosting Types

Dedicated IP

Dedicated IP domain hosting provides your domain name with its own IP address. The first domain name on a Web hosting account must use Dedicated IP hosting, with the exception of WP Hosting. Additional domain names added to your account can use either Dedicated IP, Shared IP, or Parked domain hosting.

The first Dedicated IP domain name on your hosting account is hosted at no extra cost. If you want to use Dedicated IP hosting for additional domain names, there is a monthly hosting fee for each additional domain name hosted using Dedicated IP hosting.

Shared IP

Domain names hosted using Shared IP hosting will share an IP address with one of your Dedicated IP domain names.

Hosting domain names using Shared IP hosting does not incur an additional monthly hosting fee.

Parked Domain

Domains can be “parked” on another domain name that you already have hosted using Dedicated or Shared IP hosting.

Parked domains will point to the same website and website files as the domain name on which they are parked.

For example: If you park the domain name example.net on the domain example.com, users visiting example.net/about.html will see the files for the page example.com/about.html

Parking domain names does not incur an additional monthly hosting fee.

Weebly

Weebly is a special type of domain hosting available only to Shared Hosting accounts.

Weebly domain hosting is required before a domain is able to use the Weebly Site Builder software.

There is no additional charge for this hosting type, however, there may be a charge for the Weebly service itself, depending on your selected Weebly service plan.

Note that the following restrictions apply to domains used for Weebly:

  • Weebly domains may not have other domains parked on them
  • Weebly domains may not share their IP with other domains

Adding an Existing Domain to Your Hosting Account

pair Domains’ Domains

If your domain name is registered with pair Domains, you can add the domain name to your hosting account by visiting the pair Networks Account Control Center (ACC):

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Domain Name
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  7. Click on Proceed

You’ll be taken to a screen showing the name servers that your hosted domain will use. These name servers will need to be provided to pair Domains at the time of registering for your new domain, or any time after your new domain has been registered. To add the name servers during your pair Domains registration:

  1. Visit our pair Domains site
  2. Click on Manage Domain Names
  3. Click on the domain name that you need to associate with your hosting account
  4. Enter the name servers provided by the ACC into the Edit Name Servers
  5. Click the Modify button

Domains with Third-Party Registrars

If your domain name is registered with a registrar other than pair Domains, you can use the pair Networks Account Control Center (ACC) to add the domain name to your hosting account and to get name server information to provide to your third-party registrar.

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Domain Name
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  7. Click on Proceed

You’ll be taken to a screen showing the name servers that your hosted domain will use. These name servers will need to be provided to your third-party registrar. The procedure for providing name server information varies by registrar. Please log in to your domain name registration account with your registrar, or contact your registrar in order to provide name server information for your domain names.

Adding Domain Name Records for a Domain Name to be Registered Later

If your domain name has already been registered, please see the section on adding existing domain names to your hosting account.

Adding Domain Name Records for a Domain Name to be Registered Through pair Domains

When you register a new domain name through pair Domains, you can enter name server information during the registration dialog. Doing so will associate your new domain name with your pair Networks hosting account. You can acquire name server information in advance through the pair Networks Account Control Center (ACC):

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Domain Name 
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  7. Click on Proceed

You’ll be taken to a screen showing the name servers that your hosted domain will use. These name servers will need to be provided to pair Domains at the time of registering the new domain, or any time later.

To associate nameservers with a new domain registration, simply enter your nameservers during the registration process when prompted.

If you need to add the name servers in after the registration:

  1. Log in to your account at the pair Domains site
  2. Click on Manage Domain Names
  3. Click on the domain name that you need to associate with your hosting account
  4. Enter the name servers provided by the ACC into the Edit Name Servers
  5. Click the Modify button

Adding Domain Name Records for a Domain Name to be Registered Through a Third Party Registrar

When you register a new domain name through certain third-party registrars, you can enter name server information during the registration dialog. Doing so will associate your new domain name with your pair Networks hosting account. You can acquire name server information in advance through the pair Networks Account Control Center (ACC):

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Domain Name
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  7. Click on Proceed

You’ll be taken to a screen showing the name servers that your hosted domain will use. These name servers will need to be provided to your third-party registrar. The procedure for providing name server information varies by registrar. Please log in to your domain name registration account with your registrar, or contact your registrar in order to provide name server information for your domain names.

Subdomains

Subdomains of a Domain Already on Your Account

You can create subdomains of domains that you have hosted on your hosting account. Subdomains can use any domain hosting type as full domains, but you do not need to pay an additional registration fee to create a subdomain for a domain name that you have already registered.

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Subdomain
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. If you have multiple domains hosted on your account, select the domain to create a subdomain of.
  7. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  8. Click on Proceed

pairsite.com Subdomains

You can create subdomains of pairsite.com, a domain name registered by pair Networks.

Note: the subdomain that you are attempting to create for pairsite.com may already be reserved.
  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Add a New Domain Name
  4. On the screen that follows, select Add a Subdomain
  5. Enter your domain name in the Enter Domain Name field
  6. Select pairsite.com
  7. Select the type of domain hosting you would like to use
  8. Click on Proceed

Your pairsite.com domain name will require approval before it is created.

Registering Domains in the Account Control Center

The pair Networks Account Control Center (ACC) supports registering domains through pair Domains.

  1. Log in to the ACC
  2. Find the Domains section
  3. Click on Register a New Domain Name
  4. Enter the name of the domain you would like register in the Enter Domain Name field.

You do not have to have your domains registered through pair Domains in order to host them on a pair Networks hosting account. However, there is no support within the ACC for directly registering with other registrars. Please visit the site of your chosen third-party registrar if you would like to use a registrar other than pair Domains. You will then need to link your registered domain to your hosting account, using the instructions above.