Client Post-Migration Notice

 

  • How do I find where my site is hosted or even pointing to?

  • To perform a WHOIS search click here!

  • WHOIS searches cannot be used with ‘subdomains’

Note: The WHOIS Registrar URL (domain host) is not always accurate due to SSL Transfers, etc... The DNS nameservers given generally will be however.

 

  • What is the zone file? This is a file containing all of the records regarding your domain (mx,cname,ns,A-record,etc...)

  • Who has control over the zone file for a domain? This depends on certain criteria your domain meets (see below)

 

  • A-Record (Domain/Subdomain) -

    • What is an A-record? An A-Record is used to point a logical domain name, for example: "www.corecommerce.com", to the IP address of Corecommerce’s hosting server (website), "74.125.224.147".

 

  • In the below example the client needs to update their IP with whoever controls the zone file as we do not control of this from ‘CoreCommerce’.

    • This client uses the subdomain store.teststore.com (located in settings>domains)

    • Because of this they cannot directly WHOIS search for store.teststore.com but must instead search for teststore.com

    • This tells us below their nameservers point to ‘domaincontrol.com’ which is a default GoDaddy nameserver or a NON .corecommerce.com nameserver.

    • It also more than likely means they are using an A-record to point store.teststore.com

    • Their IP must be updated to: 35.172.187.94

    • Each store will have a specific IP associated depending on server or dedicated IP’s.

 

Domain Name: .COM

Registry Domain ID: 4393535348_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com

Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com

Updated Date: 2018-06-21T16:46:21Z

Creation Date: 1997-02-27T05:00:00Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2020-06-20T11:59:59Z

Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC

Registrar IANA ID: 153

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 123-456-7890

Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited

Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited

Name Server: NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Name Server: NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

DNSSEC: unsigned

URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/

>>> Last update of whois database: 2018-08-22T02:54:51Z <<<


 

  • DNS:

    • What is a DNS? The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet. Everyone accesses information online through domain names in some way.

  • In the below example the client is pointing to ‘Outdated DNS CoreCommerce nameservers’. As of August 18th, 2018 the old values no longer work! This means they need to be updated.

 

                      Whois Look -up

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]
  Domain Name: 123test.com
  Registry Domain ID: 7544560524_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
  Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.names4ever.com
  Registrar URL: http://www.aplus.net
  Updated Date: 2018-07-19T16:38:02Z
  Creation Date: 2001-08-21T17:51:32Z
  Registry Expiry Date: 2021-08-21T17:51:32Z
  Registrar: Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. d/b/a Aplus.net
  Registrar IANA ID: 58
  Registrar Abuse Contact Email: dns@cs.aplus.net
  Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 098-765-4321
  Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
  Name Server: NS37.CORECOMMERCE.COM  
  Name Server: NS38.CORECOMMERCE.COM  
  DNSSEC: unsigned

 

  • How do I know if my .corecommerce.com DNS values are outdated? The below values are the only ones that should currently be in place, any other .corecommerce.com values are considered to be outdated and may cause unforeseen issues with your store:

ns501.corecommerce.com

ns502.corecommerce.com

ns503.corecommerce.com

Ns504.corecommerce.com

EMAILS:

 

  • Why are my emails still not working? Depending on who has control of the zone file determines where email values would need to be updated.

  • Examples include:

    • CoreCommerce hosted emails can be updated directly from within the Store Admin (See KB article)

    • Third Party Emails for example (GoDaddy, Google Apps (gsuite), and Outlook Online) all have various email values associated with them. If the DNS points to CoreCommerce we need the values from those email hosts in order for you to receive emails from your store. These values vary by email host and as such we recommend contacting yours directly to obtain and provide those values to us by emailing them to support@corecommerce.com

    • Example values include:  (mx records, cname, srv, SPF, DKIM,  etc...)

    • If your DNS is not pointing to Corecommerce then we have no control over the zone file regarding emails and how they are delivered.

 

If you suspect our email server may be blacklisting your email, contact support@corecommerce.com with the email you feel is not working.
 

I made of all the above changes why is my website still so slow?

  • Pointing to broken or incorrect links within your website such as:

    • Images uploaded to the WYSIWYG editor of any product or page.

    • Hard-code html links such as in your body or header.html/footer.html

    • Converting from the ’Shared SSL’ to a ‘Dedicated SSL’ such as a Godaddy SSL but not updating URLs

    • Navigation bar links

    • Any link referencing our deprecated shared SSL such as:

      • www19.corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

      • www19.yourstorename.corecommerce.com

  • How do I know if my links are old? Examples include referencing outdated ‘Shared SSL’ URLs::

    • www24.corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

    • www23.corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

    • www22.corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

    • www21.corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

    • www20..corecommerce.com/~yourstorename

    • Or older.

  • I’m still using your ‘shared SSL’ what is the correct format? https://yourstorename.corecommerce.com


 

  • I have alot of links, how can I find them? Using a free tool such as tools.pingdom.com will allow you to see how fast,slow, large files, or slow files affect the load time on your site. Corecommerce has already put in place many optimizations to decrease load times. Poor judgement and implementation of third party code / incorrect links however will cause delays.

 
 

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  • After: