12 Aug 10 How can I customize the URL for my Control Panels?
Gossimer, LLC allows you to have Branded Control Panel URLs. You may either use Partially Branded or Fully Branded URLs to develop your Reseller business with us. Fully Branded URLs allow you to have complete anonymity from Gossimer, LLC.
The Fully Branded Control Panel URLs can not be the same as that of your SuperSite or PartnerSite.
You must create different Branded URLs for these interfaces, in order to have the SuperSite, PartnerSite as well as the Control Panels functional at all times.
Partially Branded Control Panel URLs
Upon signing up as a Reseller of Gossimer, LLC, our system automatically generates Partially Branded URLs for Customer and Sub-Reseller Control Panels under you. Your Partially Branded URL would be of the form – http://prefix.myorderbox.com. The prefix can be modified to your liking as long as it is not being used by another Reseller in our system. Ideally, this prefix should be your Company Name or your Brand Name.
Once you have decided on your prefix, you would have to submit the same within your Reseller Control Panel, by following the below mentioned steps:
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Control Panel -> URL.
- Click on Set your Partially Branded URL Prefix.
- Under the Partially Branded URL Settings section, enter your chosen Prefix. On clicking the Update button, the prefix would be assigned to you. In case this prefix is not available, you would have to select another prefix.
- If upon changing your prefix, you wish to revert to the earlier one, you may do so by following the process outlined above. However, this modification is possible only within 30 days of making the change.
- Even after your Partially Branded prefix is changed, the old prefix cannot be used by anyone else except you for a period of 30 days. After 30 days, however, the prefix would become available for anyone to utilize.
Fully Branded Control Panel URLs
Besides Partially Branded URLs, you can point your own domain name to our servers and use those as your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs. Gossimer, LLC allows you to have as many Fully Branded URLs as you wish. However, you would have to create an Address Record for each URL you select. Also, please be aware that your selected Fully Branded URL cannot be of the form http://mybrandname.com/index.html.
Thus, if you have the Partially Branded URL in the form http://mybrandname.myorderbox.com and you want the Fully Branded URL as http://www.mybrandname.com, then you would have to create an Address Record for www.mybrandname.com pointing to 67.15.47.4.
Besides creating individual Address Records for each Fully Branded URL, you would have to submit the same within your Reseller Control Panel as well. Follow the steps mentioned below to accomplish this:
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller.
- Click on Settings ->
Control Panel -> URL. - Click on Control Panel URL.
- Here, mention your primary Fully Branded Control Panel URL besides the Fully Branded Control Panel URL field. This URL would automatically be used by our system within emails sent to your Customers and Sub-Resellers.You may also submit Additional URLs in the text box underneath.
- Click on Update to save the settings.
- Upon submission of your Fully Branded Control Panel URL, you will notice that under the Control Panel URL section, your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs for your Customers and Sub-Resellers are automatically generated and displayed.
- Even though you have created your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs, your
Partially Branded URLs would continue to function. You may always rely on these, in case your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs
develop any issue. - Without creating appropriate Address Records for your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs, your Branded URLs will not function, even though you may have submitted them within your Reseller Control Panel.
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08 Aug 10 Setting your Whois Format
As an extension of our effort to provide complete Branding and Customization, Gossimer, LLC now provides you with a unique and first of its kind feature, which is the ability to Brand the Whois Lookup Results for .com, .net domain names. You can now decide the way your Web-Based and Port 43 Whois Lookup result appear. For instance, you can choose to omit the Registration Service Provider tag, which displays the Reseller Brand name, Email address and Contact Number.
You may either standardize your .com, .net domain names Default Whois Lookup result or from the Customer Control Panel, select a different Whois format for each .com, .net Domain Name Registered through Gossimer, LLC.
Given below is the procedure to customize the look and feel of your Domain Name’s Whois lookup result -
For Customers -
From the Customer Control Panel, you can set different Whois Lookup result for each of the Domain Name Registered by you.
- Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you wish to modify the Whois Lookup results. Click here to read how >>
- In the Domain Name list view that appears, click on the Domain Name, which would lead you to the Order Details view.
- In the Order Details View, click on Whois Format. There you have the option to enter your own Whois Format by selecting the appropriate radio button. You would have to enter your Branded Whois details as per the rules and tags mentioned. For the web-based whois, you can enter any html content, upload your company logo etc. While for the Port 43 whois you can enter any text that you wish to display. For example, you can include a line This Domain Name is for SALE!
- Alternately, you can continue to use the default Whois format provided by the System.
For Resellers -
- Login to your Control Panel from - http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller or http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller
- Go to Settings -> Products -> Domain Registration -> Whois Format.
- There you have the option to enter your own Whois Format by selecting the appropriate radio button. You would have to enter your Branded Whois details as per the rules and tags mentioned. For the web-based whois, you can enter any HTML content, upload your company logo, etc.. While for the Port 43 whois you can enter any text that you wish to display. For example, you can include a line “This Domain Name is for SALE!”
- Alternately, you can continue to use the Default Whois format provided by the System. You have this option for the Web-based as well as the Port 43 whois. Whatever you select will be the Default Whois Format for all your Customers / Sub-Resellers.
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06 Aug 10 Listing, Searching and Managing Orders
In order to manage your Web hosting Orders, you need to search for them from your Control Panel with Gossimer, LLC, and access their Order Details view. To do so, follow the simple steps mentioned below -
1. Login to your Control Panel
Resellers do so from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller;
Customers do so from http://manage.gossimer.com/customer.
2. Once logged in to your Control Panel,
Resellers, go to Products -> Search -> Web Hosting Search
Customers, go to Web hosting -> List/Search
and search for the domain name for which the Webhosting Order has been purchased. (To list all Orders, leave all search parameters blank and select the Order Date as All).3. In the next page, you would see a list of all domain names, with Web Hosting Order bought through Gossimer, LLC.
Clicking on any of the domain names would take you to the Order Details view for the Order, where you can perform any modifications to the Order.
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05 Aug 10 Listing, Searching and Managing Orders
In order to manage your Managed DNS orders, you need to search for them from your Control Panel with Gossimer, LLC, and access their Order Details view. To do so, follow the simple steps mentioned below -
1. Login to your Control Panel.
Resellers do so from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller;
Customers do so from http://manage.gossimer.com/customer.
2. Once logged in to your Control Panel,
Resellers, go to Products -> Search -> Managed DNS Search
Customers, go to Domains -> Search -> Managed DNS Search
and search for the Domain Name for which the service has been purchased. (To list all orders, leave all search parameters blank).3. In the next page you would see a list of all Domain Names, with Managed DNS Services bought through Gossimer, LLC. Clicking on the Domain name would take you to the Order details view, where you can manage your service.
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