How do I change the ning name to by website name?

I already have the forwarding feature working! What I want to know is how do I get it to stay as my websites name in the address bar instead of saying my NING address. I see www.thisis50.com has that feature so it is doable...can anyone help me out?

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Permalink Reply by Stylish on October 3, 2008 at 10:56am

You have to buy that premium ning service option. You have to register a domain name with a registrar company like godaddy, looks like you already did that. Now you have to do this at that (godaddy or where ever you registered the domain name) account:

The way to set a domain up so it is fully functional and pointing to your network (without the .ning) is with the CNAME, or Canonical Name, record. Your DNS management settings at your registrar should have a section for your CNAME record, where you can set your domain to point to your network. It will look something like this www.yourdomain.com >> CNAME >> yournetwork.ning.com It can take up to 48 hours for any DNS changes to propagate.

Hope this helps. I hope Max B blow up too, I think Jim did him dirty. We dont have alot of members but he has still has our support. (pickurstyle.com)

Keep it wavy

Permalink Reply by Knotti NEO 2.0 (iM uPGRADE'N) on October 3, 2008 at 5:42pm

Thanks my dude. Its cool that you like Max too...didn't think I'd bump into any hip hop heads in here!!!

Permalink Reply by The Hot People on January 27, 2009 at 7:21am

Hi I just need to ask you. What is the DNS for ning.com

dns1.
dns2.
dns3.

I don't have a cname record at my host but I can easy set up the dns to point enywere.

Please help - I can't find it...

I use www.hostforweb.com and they always work for me.

Permalink Reply by SocialNetworkMods.com on January 27, 2009 at 12:16pm

Pretty sure you have to go with the CNAME approach to get it working. Or maybe an "A" record or something like that? Let us know if you want a hand or something, happy to help you set it up.

Not all of the Domain Name Registrars have all the bells and whistels, so you may need to swap providers at the very worst.

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