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title: "Instant DNS Activation & force 301 headers on URL forwarding"
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post_id: "682"
slug: "instant-dns-activation-force-301-headers-on-url-forwarding"
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published: "2010-06-04T00:33:39+00:00"
modified: "2018-09-04T12:41:52+00:00"
author: "Mark E. Jeftovic"
categories:
  - "What's New"
tags:
  - "301 redirect"
  - "instant dns"
  - "url forwarding"
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Following on the heels of our earlier unveiling of [tweet2txt](http://www.tweet2txt.com), I thought I’d mention 2 new features of the new platform that I think our members will agree are long welcome additions: Instant DNS activation for new domains and optional 301 Redirects for URL forwarding.

1\) **Instant DNS activation for new domains**. As soon as you pay the invoice, the domain is live on the nameservers. No more “wait a few hours for all of the nameservers to pick up the new domain in their configs”. It happens *immediately.*

Kinda cool, especially if you’ve got a “hair on fire” situation where your DNS provider is down (not us, I would hope) and you want to get up and running elsewhere (preferably here) *fast.* Now that many of the roots update in realtime, [you can be up and running with easyDNS as your new DNS provider in under 5 minutes.](https://easydns.com/dns/)

2\) **Optional 301 header for URL forwarding.** We could do this on the old system but it required manual intervention and you had to open up a ticket with support to ask for it. Now you can just check the handy “301” checkbox and we’ll URL forward as a 301 Redirect (moved permanently) instead of the default 302 “found”.

[![Enabling a 301 Redirect on a URL forward](https://easydns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Picture-15.png "easyDNS URL Forwarding interface")](https://easydns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Picture-15.png)

Depending on your requirements, there are reasons you would want to use one or the other.