Domains questions

At your domain registrar, replace the current nameservers with Traxio’s: ns1.traxio.co.uk, ns2.traxio.co.uk and ns3.traxio.co.uk. Save the change and allow a few hours for it to take effect worldwide.

ns1.traxio.co.uk, ns2.traxio.co.uk and ns3.traxio.co.uk. Enter all three at your registrar, replacing whatever is there now.

Look up your domain’s nameservers and confirm they show Traxio’s. On a Mac or Linux terminal that is dig NS yourdomain.com +short; on Windows, nslookup -type=ns yourdomain.com. Any online DNS checker does the same job.

In DirectAdmin, open Account Manager › then Subdomain Management, type the part before the dot — blog, shop, staging — and create it. The DNS record is added for you and a folder appears in your account for its files.

Either works — pick one and make the other redirect to it, so a page never exists at two addresses. Search engines treat www.example.com and example.com as separate sites unless you tell them otherwise.

For a whole domain or folder, use Account Manager › then Site Redirection in DirectAdmin. For individual pages, add redirect rules to your .htaccess file. Use a 301 for anything permanent so search engines transfer the ranking to the new address.

Build and test the site on Traxio first while the old host keeps serving visitors, then switch the domain’s nameservers last. Done in that order, nobody sees downtime.

It will if your email is hosted by your current web host and you switch nameservers without recreating the mailboxes first. Set up the addresses on Traxio before changing DNS, or keep email where it is by pointing the MX record at your existing provider.

The website and email stop working immediately, and the domain enters a grace period during which you can usually still renew it — at increasing cost as time passes. After that it can be released for anyone to register.

Yes, and for a project attached to an existing site it is usually the better choice. shop.yourdomain.com or docs.yourdomain.com costs nothing extra and keeps everything under one name.

Only the nameservers, in almost every case. Once they point at Traxio, all the individual records are managed here — you do not need to touch A records or MX records at the registrar as well.

The TLD is the last part of a domain name — .com, .co.uk, .org, .dev. It is the top-level domain, and which one you choose affects price and availability but makes no technical difference to how the site works.

A registrar is the company you rent your domain name from, and where you change its nameservers. It is a separate service from hosting, even when one company offers both. If you registered your domain through Traxio, Traxio is where you manage and renew it; otherwise your registrar is wherever you bought the name.

WHOIS is the public record of who registered a domain and when it expires. Most registrars now hide personal contact details behind a privacy service by default, so the useful things you can still read from it are the expiry date and the current nameservers.

A parked domain is one that is registered but not serving a real website — it either shows a placeholder or points at another domain. People park a domain to reserve a name, or to redirect a second spelling to their main site.

A 301 says the move is permanent and tells search engines to transfer the ranking to the new address; a 302 says it is temporary and they should keep the old one indexed. Use 301 for anything you do not intend to undo.

A subfolder (yourdomain.com/blog) keeps everything as one site, which is usually better for search. A subdomain (blog.yourdomain.com) is genuinely separate, which is what you want for a staging copy or an application that should not share the main site’s files.