Domains with Octopus Hosting

Our Domain Manager will grant you total control over multiple domains. Simply indicate the domain names whose settings you desire to update and specify the action that you want to perform. You will be able to renew the specified domain names, to update their WHOIS information and even to change their nameservers simultaneously.

The possibility to manage plenty of domain names simultaneously can help domain owners save time on common domain name administration activities.

We give you total control over your domains’ DNS resource records. Through the Custom DNS section of the Domain Manager, you’ll be able to alter various DNS resource records for a selected domain. These include A, AAAA, MX, NS, SRV, CNAME and TXT resource records. To set a new record, all you have to do is select a domain name and enter the new value in the respective record field. To modify the DNS record – click ’Modify’; to go back to the old value – click ’Revert’.

With the GeoIP location tool, also included in the Custom DNS section, you will be able to show a given language version of your website to individuals from a specific geographical region.

Within the Control Panel there’s a point & click domain administration interface featuring a ton of features for administering many domains at a time. You’ll be able to quickly set up subdomain names, forward sites, change the name servers as well as the WHOIS settings pertaining to a domain name, set custom DNS entries and even more.

Beside the typical domain name controls, in the Domain Manager you will also find an option to shield your registration information by using the Whois Privacy Protection feature as well as to secure your web store’s transactions with traditional or wildcard Secure Sockets Layer certificates.

The WHOIS information pertaining to your domain name becomes publicly exposed to everyone right after the registration process itself. You’ll be able to escape that by ordering an Whois Privacy Protection service for your domain name. With it, your personal or business details, including your name, email and street address, will be replaced with fictional info. To enable Whois Privacy Protection for your domain name, just select the domain name and click the Whois Privacy Protection button to activate this service.

This service is available with most of the generic and country–code TLD extensions that we offer. Get a closer look at the TLD information page on our website to find out which TLD extensions are Whois Privacy Protection–eligible.

With our domain name forwarding tool, you will be able to point a domain or a sub–domain in your account to any web site that you want. It sports an easy–to–use interface, which can help you forward the (sub)domains of your choosing with merely a couple of clicks. In this way, you won’t need to deal with complex .htaccess file modifications.

In order to forward a domain, just define a desired destination path and our clever system will carry out the rest for you and will instantaneously point the domain name to the newly specified location.

Having a dependable client service team ready to help you with any problem that you may have is very important for developing a trustworthy relationship with our clients. Our company offers a 24/7 technical support service with each one of our cloud hosting plans. Octopus Hosting’s technicians have been in the hosting sphere for several years and are experienced enough to help you with any problem.

On top of that, we offer a 1–hour support ticket response time guarantee. Actually, our support engineers usually answer in even less than 20 minutes!

With Octopus Hosting, you will be able to easily prevent your domain name from being taken away without your consent by "locking" it at your current registrar. This won’t affect the way the domain works in any way, but will momentarily block all domain transfer requests.

In case you need to transfer your domain name, you can easily unlock it. Locking & unlocking a domain name is truly easy and involves just one single click.

If you have only a domain name with us, but you also desire to move your web site(s) to our hosting platform, you can just upgrade to any of our cloud hosting plans. Simply visit the Upgrade Plan section of your Domain Control Panel and choose the package that you want to upgrade to. We’ll then activate all the available web hosting features for you and you will be able to make the most of all the web site installation and administration tools that are within the Control Panel.

All our cloud hosting packages offer a drag ’n’ drop File Manager, webmail access, the option to set up multiple MySQL databases and to examine in–depth web traffic statistics, and a lot more, so all you’ll need to consider is the amount of resources that you need for your sites.

If you have an online shop, which accepts credit card payments, it is crucial that you offer your customers a safe payment info submission page. And this is precisely where SSL certificates can come in real handy – they encrypt the connection between your web site and the client. Ordinarily, you have to go to a 3rd–party vendor to purchase an SSL. That is not the situation with Octopus Hosting.

At Octopus Hosting, you can order a traditional SSL certificate or even a wildcard SSL certificate right from your Control Panel.