How do I update my IP address?

Every time you add a domain, the IP address defaults to your current IP address of the computer you are using to create the account. Each domain is given a special link you access on the computer you wish to change the IP address to. To automatically access that link every so many minutes, you can use Wget in conjunction with Windows Task Manager, Wget for Linux with cron, etc... In addition, if you simply open up that special link in a web browser, the page will refresh every 15 minutes automatically allowing for you to turn your browser into a dynamic update client all by itself if you wish.

How do I get a .com to be synced with my dynamic IP address?

Once you create your Liquid Location domain, go to your domain registrar and add your current Liquid Location as a CNAME to your registered domain. Now, whenever you visit your registered domanin, it will actually be your Liquid Location domain instead.

I also want to setup www behind my Liquid Location domain, is that possible?

When you setup yourdomain.liquidlocation.com with Liquid Location the system also automatically creates www.yourdomain.liquidlocation.com, ftp.yourdomain.liquidlocation.com, mail.yourdomain.liquidlocation.com, and sets yourdomain.liquidlocation.com as your MX record.

What makes you guys so much better than other services?

Well, for starters, the creator David Prinzing got sick of always having to install an updater client on each network that needed to have a dynamic DNS. And then of course the update client needs to be updated every so often and if you use several services to update your ip address you either need 2 clients or 1 dynamic client that costs money and takes lots of system resources.

With our system, Wget loads and then shuts down after the task is run (usually using less than 1 second of processor time every 30 minutes). Also, our system is universal, you can build just about any type of update software and it is guranteed to work correctly as long as it can fetch a web address.

Another reason we built this is because of security. If you need multiple dynamic DNS addresses it is probably because you are working with several people, possibly business locations or friends that move around. Using 1 account to setup all of those machines with dynamic DNS can be tricky and you can risk exposing your password which could put the validity of your other dynamic DNS computers at risk. Plus, who knows what else you use that password for? With our system, there are no passwords involved in updating your dynamic domains so there is no risk that a security failure on one computer will affect others.

Simplicity is another reason. To update your domain name dynamicly with say, Enom (and all of the resellers of Enom services) you have to parse a URL with a dyanamic update client that looks like this: http://dynamic.name-services.com:80/interface.asp?Command=SetDNSHost&HostName=yourdomain.com&Zone=yourzone&Address=255.255.255.255&DomainPassword=password. Wow... now with our service you only have to send something like that looks like this: http://liquidlocation.com/update.php?domain=test&dnskey=g4nia22gin3891547410502. And speaking of security, did you notice how Enom includes your domain password in the UNENCRYPTED request to update? It doesn't take a skillful hacker to steal that away from you and start messing with your domain.

Lastly, there are not alot of Dynamic DNS services out there. Those dyanamic DNS services that do exist either cost money, take 25 minutes+ to sign up for, have vanished into the night, don't work very well, or require you to actually register a real .com or change the nameservers on a current one. We are none of these.

Where is Wget for Linux and Mac?

Wget comes with pretty much every flavor of Linux in the world so there is no reason to offer a download for that on our website. Mac users are going to have a little more steps to go through and should read THIS to get started.

Wait, I thought this was simple? Why do I have to do complicated things with this software Wget?

Dynamic DNS is aleady slightly more advanced than most basic computer tasks. In addition, what you plan to use a dynamic DNS for is probably going to be much more complex than the initial setup anyway. In relative terms, setting up Wget with Task Scheduler or Cron is easy when considered in that light. Also, this site is not really designed to assist people on the technical level who have a hard time with setting up Task Scheduler or Cron, but rather, it was designed to fill a gap left by most dynamic DNS services.

Lastly, you don't need to use Wget, we just provide it as an easy way to get started. You could add your update link to your favorites and visit it every day to make sure you are updated, leave the link open in a browser window and let it refresh every 15 minutes automatically, add it to a html spider and have it visited once a day, include it on a list of "Site updated" notifiers with a schedule, or write your own program to update it... the possibilities are vast.

I don't understand the instructions on Wget, I don't know what the Task Scheduler is, or I have another problem.

Sadly, this is currently a free service and I have a 'real' job and a wife that take up all of my time. However, there is a really cool invention called Google that I'm sure can help you out. Google has instructions for just about everything so don't be scared.