Can I use my own domain name with no IP?

Yes. Upgrading to No-IP Plus Managed DNS lets you use your own Domain name(s) with No-IP. To add your own Domain, visit our Managed DNS product page.

What is my domain no IP?

In www.noip.com, www is the hostname. In that same example, noip.com is the domain name. The host portion prepended to the domain name is often referred to as the hostname and that is how we use the term here. Our free dynamic DNS service offers free hostnames on our domains i.e. yourname.no-ip.org.

Does every domain have an IP address?

No : each domain does not have its own IP address. Several domains can be hosted on the same server — and on the same IP address. That’s the idea behind Apache’s VirtualHosts, for example. And one domain-name can correspond to several distinct IP addresses.

What is No-IP?

www.noip.com. Vitalwerks LLC is the parent company of No-IP which is a dynamic DNS provider for paid and free services. No-IP offers DNS services, email, network monitoring and SSL certificates. Email services include POP3 email, outbound SMTP email, backup mail services and mail reflection and filtering.

What happened to No-IP?

Effective Oct 31, 2016, domain names that include the No-IP brand name are no longer available for hostname creation. Once the hostname has been deleted it cannot be re-created and you will need to choose another domain name.

What can I do with No-IP?

The No-IP Free Dynamic DNS service takes your dynamic IP address and makes it act as though it is static by pointing a static hostname to it and checking every 5 minutes for changes to your IP address. If your IP address changes, our Dynamic Update Client updates your hostname with the current IP address.

Why do we need domain names when we already have IP addresses?

Without DNS, you cannot access any website by typing a URL in your browser. Computers talk to each other using IP addresses. Since humans cannot memorize thousands of strings of numbers, we have to use domain names instead of IP addresses. DNS keeps the record of all domain names and the associated IP addresses.

What record is responsible for resolving an IP to a domain name?

Address records, commonly known as host records, resolve IP addresses. They connect the domains you register to the correct IP address so that your website will properly resolve when someone types in your web address.

Can you run a server without a static IP?

In many cases, you can host a server on an Internet connection without static IPs by using Dynamic DNS. With Dynamic DNS, when your IP address changes, your DNS entry is automatically updated with your new IP address.

Do you need static IP for DNS?

Dynamic DNS, also known as DDNS, solves the problem of ever changing residential IP addresses by associating your address with a consistent domain name without the need to buy a pricey static IP.

Why is my hostname not showing the correct IP address?

If your hostname is showing the correct IP address, but you cannot connect to your device, the next step is to make sure that the hostname is resolving properly. The easiest way to test this is to run an NSLOOKUP command from a Terminal window.

How do I associate my hardware device to a No-IP hostname?

If you own one of the supported devices you may associate your hardware device to a single No-IP hostname in your account. Enter the domain name to be registered. Exclude www before the domain. ie yourdomain.com. The number of different IP addresses that will be associated with a round robin hostname. This can be changed later.

How do I find the IP address of my No-IP account?

Login to your No-IP account and click Hosts/Redirects at the top left of the page. You will see a list of domains/hostnames that are associated with your account. Next, to the hostname, you will see the IP address that we are currently resolving to. You can verify that this is the correct IP address by visiting Port Check Tool.

How do I change the hostname on my No-IP account?

To manually update the hostname, login to your No-IP account and click Hosts/Redirects at the top left of the page. Next to the hostname that you need to update click “Modify”. On the next page, under the Hostname Information window, you will see a location to change the IP address.