Domain Names by East Wind Hosting

Within the Control Panel there is a point–and–click domain name administration tool offering plenty of controls for administering multiple domains simultaneously. You will be able to effortlessly set up subdomains, forward sites, edit the name servers or the WHOIS records associated with a domain name, add custom DNS records and more.

Apart from the standard domain controls, in the Domain Manager you’ll also find an option to shield your registration details by using the ID protection service as well as to protect your shopping portal’s financial transactions with ordinary or wildcard SSLs.

From the Custom DNS Records section of your Domain Manager, you will be able to modify all the DNS records of your domain name with only one click of the mouse! All important types of DNS resource records are supported, including A, AAAA, MX, NS, CNAME, SRV and TXT records. All you need to do is fill in the new value for the DNS resource record that you want to set or update, click the action button and allow a little time for the new DNS resource record to be propagated worldwide. Another alternative is to revert a DNS record to its default state.

Plus, if you want to make your site’s nameservers look like your domain, you can do that with merely a simple mouse click via the Domain Manager.

According to rules introduced by ICANN, the WHOIS info pertaining to your domain name is freely accessible and your personal or business details can be viewed on the Internet by anybody. To help you hide your domain name registration information from the general public, East Wind Hosting offers you a WHOIS protection solution at a really attractive price. Inside the Domain Manager, simply specify the domain that you want to protect and then click on the ID Protect button on the right to activate this feature.

You ought to keep in mind that this service is available only with the following TLD extensions: .info, .biz, .co, .co.za, .me, .tv, .pro, .cc, .net, .we.bs, .com and .org.

Thanks to our Domain Manager, you’ll be able to easily manage a multitude of domains from a single place. You’ll be bestowed with access to an immense array of DNS controls and will be able to make changes to a lot of domain names at the same time.

Plus, in the event that you also have a cloud hosting account with us, you will be able to administer both your domains and your sites from just one location.

By locking your domain, you’ll be able to secure it from unauthorized transfers. In this way, any individual who attempts to initiate a transfer of your domain to a different domain name registrar will be immediately blocked.

And if you need to transfer your domain to some other domain name registrar yourself, you can unlock it with one single click. The locking/unlocking functionality is included in the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel. Just choose a domain and click the Registrar Lock button to lock or unlock it.

If you want to to park a domain name, you can quickly achieve this using our Domain Parking tool. At any given time, you will be able to easily point your domain name to our two domain parking templates – For Sale and Under Construction. Your domain will be parked instantly. You’ll be able to park as many domains as you need!

In order to personalize the domain name parking templates, you can also include custom text and images.

Using the GeoIP redirection tool integrated into the Domain Manager, you can point a specific language version of your web site to a particular geographic region. It has a user–friendly point ’n’ click interface where you don’t have to type any code. Simply fill in the location of your prospective site visitors plus the URL that you’d like to load for those visitors.

For instance, if you have a German version of your site at de.your–site.com, you’ll have to type it in the URL field and select Germany as a preferred target market. This way, each time a person coming from Germany visits your website, they’ll see de.your–site.com rather than your–site.com.