WHOIS Privacy Protection

In case you have an online shop, which accepts payments, it’s essential that you offer your clients a safe payment information submission section. And this is where SSL certificates come into play – they encrypt the connection between your website and the customer. Usually, you have to go to a third–party vendor to get an SSL. This isn’t the case with Bluff City Host.

With us, you’ll be able to enable a standard SSL certificate or even a wildcard SSL certificate straight through your Control Panel.

From our Domain Manager, you’ll be able to easily manage numerous domains from a single location. You’ll acquire access to a rich array of DNS controls and will be able to make changes to plenty of domain names at once.

Besides, if you happen to also have a cloud hosting account with us, you’ll be able to manage both your domain names and your web sites from a single place.

When registering a domain, you need to provide accurate WHOIS info and to keep it up to date constantly. If you need to change your e–mail or home address, or in case you mean to transfer the domain name to someone else, you can accomplish that through the Domain Manager interface.

Simply push the Edit WHOIS button beside the domain name in question and modify the respective registrant, technical and admin contact info. After you click on the Update button, the modifications will be momentarily updated online.

You can effortlessly upgrade the domain management account that you have with us to one of our cloud hosting plans. In this way, you will be able to easily administer both your domains and websites from one location. To enable all the web hosting features in your Control Panel, just visit the Upgrade Plan menu located on the left and select the plan that you want to switch to.

The second we activate the plan of your choosing, you will get a bouquet of tools, among them a drag & drop File Manager, a hotlink protection tool, a domain name forwarding tool, an in–depth web site traffic statistics tool, a 1–click Web Applications Installer using which you will be able to launch personal blogs, community–focused sites, online photo albums, and so on.

We, at Bluff City Host, give you complete control over your domain names’ DNS settings. Via the Custom DNS section of the Domain Manager, you’ll be able to update different types of DNS records for a chosen domain. For example, A, AAAA, MX, NS, SRV, CNAME and TXT records. To add a new resource record, simply select a domain name and then fill in the desired value in the respective DNS resource record field. To modify the DNS record – click on ’Modify’; to go back to the default value – click on ’Revert’.

Through the GeoIP location tool, also available in the Custom DNS section, you can show a given language version of your website to individuals from a specific region.

You can park a registered domain by pointing it to one of Bluff City Host’s two domain parking themes – For Sale or Under Construction. The domain name parking procedure is truly simple and will go into effect straight away. You will be able to park as many domain names as you desire. In case you have to un–park the domain name – you can accomplish it with merely a click of the mouse.

Additionally, you can tweak our two domain parking themes using custom images and messages in order to make them more personalized.

Within the Control Panel there’s a point & click domain administration interface offering a plethora of controls for administering numerous domain names simultaneously. You will be able to effortlessly create subdomains, forward websites, update the nameservers as well as the WHOIS settings pertaining to a domain, specify custom DNS entries and more.

Apart from the typical domain controls, in the Domain Manager you will also find an option to shield your domain registration details using the Whois Privacy Protection service as well as to safeguard your e–store’s monetary transactions with traditional or wildcard SSLs.

With the aid of the Wildcard DNS functionality, you’ll be able to make all your active subdomains redirect to the home page of your site. For instance, when somebody types in any.domain.com or smth.domain.com, they’ll be redirected to http://domain.com/.

You may need the Wildcard DNS feature for a multi–site application like WordPress or Joomla^™ Multi–Site.

To activate a wildcard domain name, proceed to the Domain Manager section of your Control Panel and then click on the Add Host button located on the right. At the bottom of the list of options, you will notice the Wildcard Domain check box.

With Bluff City Host, you will be able to easily protect your domain name from being taken away without your approval by "locking" it at your current domain name registrar. This will not influence the way the domain works in any respect whatsoever, but will immediately block all domain name transfer requests.

And if you have to transfer your domain name, you can easily unlock it. Locking/Unlocking a domain is quite simple and entails just one single click.