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Hi all,
I've assigned domain names to my Nabble forums, and when I set these up, I assigned
root-level domain names to them (e.g. "domain.com", NOT "forum.domain.com").
This worked fine until I tried changing registrars.
As others have pointed out here in the past, some registrars / web hosts do not allow
you to create CNAME records for root-level domains. They insist that you use a
subdomain instead (e.g. "forum.domain.com"). However, since I was already using
a root-level domain at the previous registrar, I did not want to change the
name of existing groups.
Fortunately, I found that the Free DNS provided by NameCheap allows you to
assign a CNAME to a root-level domain (even for domains that aren't registered
with them), and that works with Nabble. So that's my solution for today. Also, my
original registrar, DynaDot, also allows you to assign CNAME records to root-level
domains, and that works with Nabble.
I'm just wondering if there are any other solutions to this -- does Nabble's
domain name feature really only work with CNAME records, or are there
any other clever DNS workarounds that people have found to work (e.g. URL
forwarding, A records, redirects, etc.).
Thanks,
Marc
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