1.4 Changes of a Domain

How do I modify the properties of a domain?

 

Properties of a Domain

 

The properties of a domain at Joker.com include these elements:


Please visit 'My Domains' and click on 'Modify' for your desired domain. You will find further explanations at the respective function.

 

My Domains - modify

 

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Who is able to make changes to a domain?

 

Who is able to make changes to a domain?

 

The Joker.com login account which has been used to register a domain is able to modify all aspects of this domain afterward.

Additionally, permissions ('roles') may be granted to other Joker.com accounts as an option.

Please check here to find out more about those grants and 'roles'.

 

Also, the person who represents the "registrant contact name" in the Whois data of a domain is authorized to request changes to a domain.

 

 

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What can not be changed?

 

Restrictions on Changes

 

If you register a domain, you are able to control most aspects of this domain:

 

In case you have access to a domain because somebody else assigned you a role ('permissions') for this domain, you only are able to modify aspects limited by this role (=> How to grant roles (= grant permissions to others)?).

 

Important: You are obliged to enter only valid and true address and identity information for Whois data. This is a requirement of all domain registries. 

 

 

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Changes requiring special Procedures

 

Changes requiring special Procedures

 

Some changes of aspects of a domain require special procedures, which are usually following a mandatory ICANN policy. The most common changes are listed here:

 

 

 

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What can be changed?

 

Changes in a Domain

 

If you order (register) a domain, you are able to control all aspects of this domain:

 

In case you have access to a domain because somebody else assigned you a role ('permissions') for this domain, you only are able to modify aspects limited by this role.

Please check here to find out more about 'roles'. 

 

Please also have a look at

 
Important: You are obliged to enter only valid and true address and identity information for Whois data. This is a requirement of all domain registries. 
 
 

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How do I transfer a domain to my account if the domain is already at Joker.com, but on another account?

 

Please follow this link: How to add existing domains to my portfolio?

 

 

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Let's Encrypt Support

 

Support for automating Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates

 

Joker.com provides a simple tool to automate the usage of Let's Encrypt certificates.

N.B.: We will support this solution also with our new name service, and the new API which is underway.

 

Using this tool, you will be able to request certificates from Let's Encrypt without having to expose the domain using HTTP running a web server; or add special configurations to existing web services.

Instead, the Let's Encrypt method used is 'dns-01', where a special TXT record needs to be inserted into your domain to request a certificate. Please note that this domain must be using the free Joker.com nameservice (which is the default).

 

Setting a TXT record is fairly straightforward:

  1. please login at Joker.com, visit 'My Domains', find the domain you want to add a  Let's Encrypt certificate for, and chose "DNS" in the menu
  2. on the top right, you will find the setting for 'Dynamic DNS'. If not already active, please activate it. It will not affect any other already existing DNS records of this domain.
  3. please take note of the credentials which are now shown as 'Dynamic DNS Authentication', consisting of a 'username' and a 'password'.
  4. this is all you have to do here - and only once per domain.

 

The following explains the technical details - you may skip this and simply use the attached files which you find below. They do work with the commonly used tool dehydrated. Where to place these files, and how to configure your domains or host names, is documented in the file 'config.sh'.

 

For the use of the certbot, github-user dhull kindly provides another solution:

 

GitHub: https://github.com/dhull/certbot-dns-joker

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/certbot-dns-joker/

 

This can easily be installed by "pip install certbot-dns-joker" - see the github page above for details.

 


 

To set a TXT record, you may now do this using a single cURL request:

 

curl -X POST https://svc.joker.com/nic/replace -d \
'username=your-username&password=your-password&zone=your-domain.com&label=_acme-challenge&type=TXT&value=the-TXT-content-to-insert'

 

This will create a TXT record for "_acme-challenge" in zone "your-domain.com".
It responds with 200 and "OK: n# inserted, n# deleted" if everything went OK, and appropriate status and text if not.

Some additional notes regarding this:

 

 

 

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