You were right… they do the settings manualy behind the scenes

Your problem is that you have not got an A record or a CNAME record pointing at Wikidot (or at your web-hoster — I'm not sure what you want.) I suspect that you have used the "Domain Pointing Manager" and not a "Custom DNS Record". I am not sure where that is in their control panel, maybe "Domain Central"?

The Domain Pointing Manager uses other technology to point the domain at a web-hoster. In fact the domain points at the iPower web server which pulls redirection tricks to make it look like the domain points at a third-party hoster. These tricks are only needed for web hosters that do not let you use A records and CNAME records. My ISP is like that for the "home pages" it provides — No scripting, no DNS.

At the moment if you type "www.ethischforum.be" you end up at our wikidot site… however if you manually add for example "admin:manage" the homepage is reloaded.

Also the URL does not change if you go to different pages inside the website. Only www.ethischforum.be is in the adressbar of the browser.

The wikidot admin gives me the error message
The host asks me to provide 2 dnservers

Here is a picture of their interface.

-Ed

You can find the discount coupon codes for each month by googling.

 $ whois soronlin.org.uk Domain name: soronlin.org.uk Registrant: Richard Urwin Registrant type: UK Individual Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service. Registrar: Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG] URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk Relevant dates: Registered on: 16-Feb-2003 Renewal date: 16-Feb-2011 Last updated: 06-Mar-2009 Registration status: Registered until renewal date. Name servers: ns.hosteurope.com ns2.hosteurope.com WHOIS lookup made at 13:50:42 20-Oct-2010 -- This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry for .uk domain names. This information and the .uk WHOIS are: Copyright Nominet UK 1996 - 2010. You may not access the .uk WHOIS or use any data from it except as permitted by the terms of use available in full at http://www.nominet.org.uk/whois, which includes restrictions on: (A) use of the data for advertising, or its repackaging, recompilation, redistribution or reuse (B) obscuring, removing or hiding any or all of this notice and (C) exceeding query rate or volume limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time. 

If you need more security than that, then I think GoDaddy will front for the domain themselves and keep your identity completely hidden. (Except for a court order of course.) I haven't used them myself so I'm not sure how it works.

Personally I've had no problem with 123reg.co.uk.

What is the current recommended domain provider to buy from? I want:

• A .com domain (possibly a .net or .org address at the same domain as well)
• To hide my personal details when someone looks up the domain

I have both of these domains pointed at wikidot…what am I doing wrong?

Your .ca site has far more inlinks than your .com, about 3000 more. The result is that your SEO efforts on the .ca are much better than on the .com. Also, your .com redirects to your .ca so one look by a Google quality rater means a decrease in rank the .com.

My question for you: why are you trying to get indexed for both sites with there is no obvious keyword benefit from the .com compared to the .ca and the .com has no content?

If you ever run into that problem again, you can always just visit the site manager at http://rollinglife.wikidot.com/admin:manage <— that page will work even if your custom domain is broken. The Wikidot team has done this to solve problems like the one you were having.

Welcome to Wikidot :)

Cheers,
Shane

I setup custom domain rollinglife.com for my Wikidot site rollinglife.wikidot.com

I got settings successfully saved message. However, I accidentally clicked "Use the custom domain as the only domain for this site" and saved, before first confirming that my custom domain is working properlly.
Now my custom domain is not working and also everytime I try going to rollinglife.wikidot.com it is redirecting to my custom domain. My site is blocked and there is no way I can go to my site now.

Please help.

Regards,
Ketan Sevekari

I've never had any extra charges. Then again, I've got such little traffic hitting my site that it'll probably never be an issue. I just took a quick look and can't find any "fine print" about excess changes. Do you get the same pricing as I do in the US? I know there's a 1and1.uk - is there a 1and1.downunder? ;)

-Ed

Have you had any excess charges from them recently? Before entering my payment details, I read the agreement, and noticed that they can charge me up to $200 a month in excess charges, which has me a bit worried. I'm assuming that most people wouldn't even reach $10 in excess charges - but wanted to check with you on this first.

Cheers,
Shane

when I type "site:turnerstips.ca" into google I see all my site's pages displayed nicely indexed.
when I type "site:turnerstips.com" into google I only see one page…not cool.

I have both of these domains pointed at wikidot…what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.