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What is host file?

A hosts file is an address book, situated on your local desktop, that maps a host name to an IP address (network name resolution). Generally, a domain name (host name) is translated in to IP address via the DNS resolution process. However, the host entries that are present in this file will bypass this DNS resolution.

This can be of great help when:

• You have modified the Name Servers, and are viewing the cached results due to the DNS propagation delay.

• You are in process of migrating the hosting server, and want view the website on the new server when its still under development. This way you can preview the site in the developmental stage, whereas your visitors will continue to view the live website on the old server. Thus, the traffic to your site remains unaffected.

  Note

  You can also use the Direct/Temp URL to preview the site on 's server.

Creating a hosts file

To view the results with such immediate effect, you can define a host/domain name in the hosts file.

For Windows

1. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and locate the hosts file.

   

2. Open it in any text editor like Notepad, Notepad++, etc.

3. Add your host entires as shown in the snapshot below and save the file.

   

For Linux

1. Locate the hosts file at /etc/hosts.

2. Run the below command to edit file:

   vim /etc/hosts

3. Add your host entires as shown in the snapshot below and save the file.

   

If you have any browsers open, close them and then open them again. You should now be able to successfully test your website on your new server.

supports Registration, Renewal and Transfer of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) under the following domain name extensions:

• .ASIA

• .BIZ

• .CA

• .CC

• .CO

• .COM

• .DE

• .ES

• .EU

• .INFO

• .NAME

• .NET

• .ORG

• .??? (Russian IDN for .org)

• .?? (Chinese IDN for .org)

• .????? (Hindi IDN for .org)

• .PW

• .TEL

• .TV

• .?? (Chinese IDN for .online)

• .??? (Chinese IDN for .network)

Refer to the supported character sets mentioned below:

• .ASIA IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .BIZ IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Norwegian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .CA IDN: French characters, English alphabets and digits

• .CC / .TV IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

  Note

  the character ς (codepoint=962) is not supported on our platform.

• .CO IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Norwegian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .COM / .NET IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

  Note

  the character ς (codepoint=962) is not supported on our platform.

• .DE IDN: Restricted German characters, English alphabets and digits

  Note

  the character ß (codepoint=223) is not supported on our platform.

• .ES IDN: Restricted Spanish characters, English alphabets and digits

• .EU IDN: You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .IN.NET IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .INFO IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Danish

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Polish

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .NAME IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

  Note

  the character ς (codepoint=962) is not supported on our platform.

• .ORG IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Cyrillic

  • Danish

  • German

  • Hindi

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Polish

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• .PW IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets here.

• .TEL IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • French

  • German

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Norwegian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

• CentralNic IDN: The character set depends upon the language chosen for the Internationalized Domain Name. You can refer to supported character sets below:

  • .EU.COM:

    • Arabic

    • Cyrillic

    • Greek

    • Hebrew

    • Latin

  • .GB.COM:

    • Latin

  • .AE.ORG:

    • Arabic

  • .KR.COM:

    • Korean

  • .US.COM:

    • Arabic

    • Chinese

    • Cyrillic

    • Greek

    • Hebrew

    • Japanese

    • Latin

  • .QC.COM:

    • Latin

  • .DE.COM:

    • Latin

  • .GB.NET:

    • Latin

  • .NO.COM:

    • Latin

  • .HU.COM:

    • Latin

  • .GR.COM:

    • Greek

  • .JPN.COM:

    • Japanese

  • .UY.COM:

    • Latin

  • .ZA.COM:

    • Latin

  • .BR.COM:

    • Latin

  • .CN.COM:

    • Chinese

  • .SA.COM:

    • Arabic

  • .SE.COM:

    • Latin

  • .SE.NET:

    • Latin

  • .UK.COM:

    • Latin

  • .UK.NET:

    • Latin

  • .RU.COM:

    • Cyrillic

• .?? (Chinese IDN for .online): You can refer to supported character set here.

• .??? (Chinese IDN for .network): You can refer to supported character set here.