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I decided to register a new domain in order to make the address more user-friendly and easy to remember. Chose the NameCheap domain registrar as I already have a few domains with them and I am quite happy with what they offer regarding yearly prices, plus I had a code for a free domain (1 year).
To begin with, I have been thinking about the domain name for a while now (past few months) and "ugmap" was one of the options which I like as it is not very specific and not too general at the same time as well as being a short base name. So here is the new address (domain name server changes might have not propagated completely yet, as this process takes between 24-up to 48 hours to complete 100%):
(all subdomains should redirect to the main base-name)
An important note to mention here is that NameCheap also offered me free hosting with the new domain name and also included whois privacy protection in the service. Had I known about this earlier, I would have probably considered this hosting service as well before deploying server code on Digital Ocean. Although I have had some issues with the latter, though, I still think they are a good cloud hosting provider considering the prices of the server equipment.
Once I completed the registration I set the new domain's nameservers and pointed them to Digital Ocean:
Then I checked the domain name's whois using the free service at http://www.domaintools.com/ to confirm that the changes had occured due to the fact that they become visible on the front end only after they have been propagated through the whole network (which takes approximately 24-48 hours):
After that i created the A-record mappings to connect the base-name to the server droplet's IP address. I also made the "www" subdomain vidible and added an additional CNAME-record in order to make sure that all sub-domains are redirected to the main page using regex:
After making sure that everything has been configured correctly and a few hours had passed, I pinged the domain to see that it responds to requests on the new ip address:
As seen in the screenshot above, the domain and its different subdomain variations respond to pinging (with some exceptions as the site is available on-off until the transfer is 100% complete). In a few more hours the changes should have become permanent.