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I have been a happy customer of MyDomain.com, which handles domain stuff for http://JonathansCorner.com, which is my personal site handled correctly and http://JonathanHayward.com, which is CNAMEd to http://JonathansCorner.com where it normally serves up a professional site, but now serves up an imitation domain name speculator site because MyDomain includes free parking service and this parking trumps CNAMEs, with some dumbed-down menu choices that do not have information scent for "I made a CNAME choice; please respect it."

Most of my domains are CNAMEd, usually referring to the server with my personal site.

What should I do now? Manual override for each CNAMEd domain? Re-evaluate my provider? Add more detail to the support ticket (it says that CNAMEd domains have CNAME trumped by parking)? Decide it's time for a service that drapes slightly dirty pictures of girls?

With MyDomain for NOW...

Christos Hayward
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  • It looks fine to me. I just went to both sites. – joeqwerty Nov 23 '12 at 01:09
  • Hrm? http://JonathansCorner.com pulls as intended; http://JonathanHayward.com pulls Jonathanhayward.com November 22, 2012 Related Searches

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     – Christos Hayward Nov 23 '12 at 01:33
  • P.S. I do not sell pool-related hardware. I'm an author and IT professional; http://JonathanHayward.com is intended to sell my professional services and to a slight degree my books. Did you see copy like I pasted above, or did you see a professional site with my picture and links to open source projects and the like? – Christos Hayward Nov 23 '12 at 01:36
  • @joeqwerty it look broken to me. But the record is also broken. Perhaps your DNS resolver is more forgiving? – Zoredache Nov 23 '12 at 01:40
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    http://serverfault.com/questions/430970/cname-for-top-level-domain – Zoredache Nov 23 '12 at 01:41
  • MY bad, sorry. I didn't pay attention to the content. I saw a link to helpdesk software and a link to Amazon and assumed that was the correct site. Apologies. – joeqwerty Nov 23 '12 at 01:41

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It is not valid to have a CNAME at the top level. By setting one you have probably broken you zone.

You cannot use a CNAME for jonathanhayward.com.

Zoredache
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