Domains FAQ

Domain Names
What is a domain name? A domain name is a web address. You need to register a web address in order to have a live website on the internet [more]

Domain Name Registration Tutorial
Follow this procedure to register your domain name. [more]

How to transfer an existing (pre registered) domain name to your website
If you already have a domain name and want to associate it with your new website, follow these steps: [more]

Requesting a UDAI
How to generate a new UDAI key for your .nz domain hosted with Websitebuilder [more]

What are your nameservers and IP addresses
The nameservers are the machines that convert web addresses (domain names) to machine IP addresses (numerical addresses) [more]

Domain name renewals
What happens when your domain name is due for renewal [more]

Lapsed Domain Names
What to do if you haven't renewed your domain name on time and decide you want to keep it [more]

Adding a Subdomain (sub host) to your site
How to set up a subdomain eg. example.yourdomain.co.nz [more]

verifying your domain with google, bing.
Get the steps to validate your website via the CMS [more]

Website Statistics
Where do I find and the how do I understand my website's statistics? [more]

Investigating Outages
Sometimes users experience website outages that may not actually be a website outage, but actually an outage of the clients connection, or some link in the middle. Read on. [more]