I just swapped host, registrar. My new host is ASO. My new registrar is Domainsite. To make things even more complicated, my email (MX records) is to be routed to Google "Gmail for Domain".

DomainSite's control panel is sort of confusing to me. I can understand of course that the primary DNS for the domain name must be the registrar. (Domainsite). They insist, for all other services to work. This is ns1 and ns2...

Then there are panels in which one may add MX records for appropriate google servers...

However, I do not see a place where one may name the ASO target. All I see is "URL forwarding" where one may specify a "URL target" - but this seems not sufficient to target ASO.

There *is* a DNS control panel where one may add server names of various types, including something, perhaps relevant, called A records.

I *will* need to have email forwarding, at least I hope. And for other domain names on the same account, I hope to have URL forwarding...am I hoping for the impossible? Or am I just ill-trained in record types?

Can someone please offer simple, straightforward advice as to what records I need to add? I have target addresses in either IP or text forms. Domainsite offers blanks in _____ with fixed ".yourdomain.com"

Is my question clear?

you need to point @ , WWW , FTP etc.. records to your IP address provided by toyr webhostig company

you need to point @ , WWW , FTP etc.. records to your IP address provided by toyr webhostig company

when you set the above up make sure they are A records...

If I have direct access to an FTP IP address from my home PC (I've already been using it), and if I have MX records (already redirected successfully to Google), and if I do not have (and never *will* have) subdomains, then do I need any A records beyond www? And is 300 correct? (What is 300, and for that matter, what does the letter "A" stand for?) (And, in case you don't know it, thanks for your advice so far!):peace:

I have an IP for ASO, and ASO gave me an "IP of record" for my domain name. Which should I place in my A records?

In this case, I would suspect ASO's to direct the main domain to ASO, then *my* IP-of-record to effect url-forwarding? Or is my IP-of-record not involved here, and the url-forwarded domains directed to the registrar's handling servers?

(OOps, I should mention, context: three other domains on the same registrar, being url-forwarded to files on the master domain's host)