Windows Live Custom Domains

[Starshine]

Hey Billy,

I signed up for that google domain thing, and went to check my gmail account, already have my invite. Just have to follow a link and fill out some basic information it seems.

So, maybe there isn't much requirement. If you signed up, check your gmail account.

[Alejandro]

Just make a good application. There are no invites yet. Apply, it'll take them up to a week to answer, but it's worth it.

[Chris Z]

hmmm maybe i requested too many emails LOL what's a reasonable amount? cuz i requested like 50 LOL, i'm sure i could go down to 25 but i'm not sure i sorta wanted to make sure i had enough, it's probably more then i need though so ya..

[Jacob]

Looks interesting... I was using Live Custom Domains, but I will give this a try.

[Chris Z]

well if worst comes to worst, i will use WLCD, but Jacob, can you guide me through setting everything up for it?

[Starshine]

How do I find out more 'bout WLCD's e-mail?? ... If I change my MX records and follow all that, how do I go about checking my e-mail? Or setting up accounts or anything like that??

I may set up one with Google's beta thing, and the other domain with that ...( WLCD ) to give a test run to both.

[ViperCon]

The navigation is on the left under each domain in WLCD.
To log into email accounts, you need to go to hotmail.com

[Starshine]

Ahh. I found it. Had to go to the WLCD website itself. *lol* Thats what I was trying to figure out.

Okay ... So its telling me to do the MX records. I have a free hosting account - my domain is pointed here ... how do I change the MX record to point there??

I logged into my cpanel and clicked on the MX record thing and am just plain confused.

Or do I need to do it from my domain registrar?

[ViperCon]

Ahh. I found it. Had to go to the WLCD website itself. *lol* Thats what I was trying to figure out.

Okay ... So its telling me to do the MX records. I have a free hosting account - my domain is pointed here ... how do I change the MX record to point there??

I logged into my cpanel and clicked on the MX record thing and am just plain confused.

Or do I need to do it from my domain registrar?

Once you're in the MX records part of cPanel, you need to edit the MX record of your domain to what WLCD wants you to put. Then go to WLCD and update your domains information (the mxrecords page thingy)

[Chris Z]

i tried that, and it didn't change..it still stayed the same telling me to still follow those steps, there wasn't any sign of it recognizing that i changed the MX Record...i'm confused, what do i do next, i can't delete the MX Record for my subdomain (.x10hosting.com) and i'm not gonna delete my subdomain, i wanna keep it just in case something goes wrong with my domain