Using Domain Names For Your Web

Ricky — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:36:18 +0000

Here’s a breakdown of those most important features we mentioned earlier. URL Redirection allows you to forward any requests for your name to another web address. For example if you go to http://gooogle.com (extra “o”) you will be redirected to http://google.com – this is known as a typo domain allowing you to have misspelled versions of your domain forwarded to the correct domain name. It’s also useful if you have multiple domains but you want them to all land on the same destination site.

Example: In this case you could redirect yourname1.com, yourname2.com and yourname3.com through to yourname.com, so all visitors to any of your domain names will arrive at your main website.

URL REDIRECTS

http://yourname1.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com
http://yourname2.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com
http://yourname3.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com

Email Forwarding is a perfect way to set up email accounts for a domain name that doesn’t have a hosting account with mail server. In the URL Redirection example above you would most likely have an email server for your main hosting account “yourname.com”. Hoever, you may have users who would send emails to
someone@yourname1.com or someone@yourname2.com. With Email Forwarding allows you to set up “dummy” addresses which would forward any messages received though to your main mailbox.

Example: Let’s say you have 2 main email accounts sales@yourname.com and info@yourname.com. However, you also want people to be able to be able to send emails to sales@yourname1.com and info@yourname1.com. Because you don’t have yourname1.com hosting with its own mail server, you can simply set up 2 email forwards so that any email delivered to sales@yourname1.com is redirected through to sales@yourname.com and info@yourname1.com gets delivered to info@yourname.com as follows:

EMAIL FORWARDS
sales@yourname1.com – forward to – sales@yourname.com
info@yourname1.com – forward to – info@yourname.com
you@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com

With Enom you can create up to 100 different email forwards for each of your domain names. It’s also a useful way of having multiple emails delivered to single mailbox as follows:

EMAIL FORWARDS
sales@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com
info@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com
you@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com

URL Framing or Masking functions in exactly the same way as URL Redirection, redirecting your domain name through to another web address, apart from one vital and very useful element.

It maintains the URL in the address bar of the browser. So if you set up URL Framing for the domain name yoursite1.com to be redirected through to http://yoursite.com, using URL Framing the user would still see http://yoursite1.com in the browser address bar and browser title. The fact that they are actually on http://yoursite.com is hidden to the user.

URL Framing is a valuable tool enabling you to save a fortune on hosting your mini sites or basic smaller websites!

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Using Domain Names For Your Web