@Malibu.com Website DNS Sub-Domain Pointer

You can configure a Web site so that its address matches your email address (or any other available address at Malibu.com). For example, you could direct your customers to http://beachsand.malibu.com, or http://www.beachsand.malibu.com. (This type of address is called a “sub-domain”, as it’s part of the Malibu.com domain.)

Although Malibu.com is not in the Web hosting business, we can recommend several reliable, popular Web hosting companies, and you can create your site using one of these hosting sites. Once you have created your site, we can “point” your sub-domain address at your hosted site, so visitors to your site will know that you’re part of the Malibu experience, based on the Web address. We can point the sub-domain address at any Web site you choose, so you’re not limited to our suggested vendors.

When you have decided who you want to host your website, the web host will ask if you will use a domain name that you registered with the hosting company, or if you have your own domain name. You will indicate you have your own domain name, and you will supply the sub-domain name that you have created at Malibu.com (such as beachsand.malibu.com). You will then be able to setup and design your web site.

The web hosting company will provide you with an IP address for your website (such as 67.5.12.145). You tell us the IP address, and we set up the sub-domain DNS pointers so when someone enters http://beachsand.malibu.com or http://www.beachsand.malibu.com in their browser, it will take them to your website. (It can take from one to three business days for this pointer to be recognized on the Internet. This delay is outside our control, and is a normal part of changing address records on the Internet.)

You can also license additional sub-domain pointers for any name that will appear to the left of your sub-domain name. For example, you could add, at additional cost, the second domain name http://sales.beachsand.malibu.com (along with http://www.sales.beachsand.malibu.com). You can have any number of levels to the left of your sub-domain name as you want. For each pair of names (one always begins with www) you must license an additional Website DNS Sub-Domain Pointer.

Now that you’ve set up email for yourself, and configured a hosted Web site so it is available using your personal sub-domain address at Malibu, your business will certainly grow. Most likely, before long, you’ll need more email addresses.

Five (5) Email Addresses for your Sub-Domain

For each of your primary sub-domain pointers (not the domain pointers that begin with www), you can license additional email addresses in groups of five. (This means you can add 5, 10, 15, and so on, new email addresses. Because you must license at least one email address first, before adding packages of five, you can own 1, 6, 11, 16, and so on, total email boxes.)

You can select new email addresses, just as you selected your original email address. You can add email aliases for any of these additional email addresses. These additional email addresses behave just like your original email address, and you control the names, just like your original @malibu.com email address. In other words, you administer your own email addresses. You can add, remove, rename, and otherwise work with all of your additional email boxes.

You perform mailbox administration using a browser-based control panel. Once you have configured your own sub-domain, you can have your own login page (for example, http://webmail.beachsand.malibu.com). You can add your own logo and other personalized information to this page. (Note that you will need some knowledge of web page creation in order to make these changes.) As an example, browse to https://webmail.malibu.com, to see how we have customized our own login page.

Given your own personal sub-domain, and additional email addresses, you can now receive email for john@beachsand.malibu.com, mary@beachsand.malibu.com, and so on.

Because you, John, and Mary need to supply password credentials in order to log in and work with email, security should be a concern. By default, password information appears hidden within the browser, but is sent over the Internet in an unencrypted format, as plain text. If you’re concerned about sending passwords securely, you need to add the SSL for Email Sub-Domain product.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for Email Sub-Domain

This product allows you to access your email via a browser with the added security of a secure Internet connection using an address like https://webmail.beachsand.malibu.com. The addition of this feature provides you with the same secure interactions via the browser as you have come to expect when you shop online. Without this option, any mail viewed using a browser could be compromised by various Internet tools. With the addition of this product, the browser encrypts information in a secure fashion between the mail server and the client.