Thanks Steve, this helps a lot.

jeff

On Jun 28, 5:17 pm, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jeff.
>
> You don't want to set the nameservers to heroku but rather tell one and ones 
> name servers that your domain can be found by going to heroku. To do this you 
> can use a cname (so stick with one and ones nameservers) in the dns settings. 
> The cname is proxy.heroku.com.
>
> The only issue comes if you also have email on that domain. If you do you 
> can't use the cname and instead you have a choice. One and one can't have 
> multiple ips (they're called A records by most companies) per domain so 
> either use one of them (which may cause issues but prob won't) or use the 
> zerigo add-on. With zerigo you actually do change nameservers to zerigo and 
> then they will handle adding the other records for you.
>
> You still need to pay the one and one domain fee but not any of the other 
> stuff (ie. Only instant domain is needed)
>
> I hope that helps
> Steve
>
> On 27 Jun 2010, at 13:32, iamtheschmitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
>
> > I am trying to move mydomain andwww.mydomainfrom 1 and 1 to point to
> > my heroku instance.
>
> > I am confused about 1) how to do this, 2) do I still need 1 and 1
> > afterward
>
> > How to do this
>
> > 1 went into my control panel and selected transfer domain.  I chose
> > "DNS Record" (vs. CNAME), selected "My name server" (vs. 1 and 1 name
> > server", and I entered the 3 IP addresses from docs.heroku.com:
>
> > 75.101.163.44
> > 75.101.145.87
> > 174.129.212.2
>
> > Is this a logical first step.  What exactly am I telling 1 and 1 to
> > do?  I think its to point my domain to proxy.heroku.com.
>
> > Anyhow, this was not allowed.  After googling I found I could add
> > subdomains (ns1.mydomain, etc), with these explicit IP addresses and
> > point the DNS there, which was acceptable.
>
> > Now mydomain has fallen off the face of the earth.  Looking up
> > mydomain using a browser, host, nslookup, ping, all fail:
>
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> > What's with 1 and 1 after
>
> > As someone new to this arena, I am not liking 1 and 1, and I would
> > like to be rid of them.  Am I transferring my DNS to Heroku or are
> > they still the owner and I am pointing it there?
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > jeff
>
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