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New Hampshire Underground => Porcupine Trading Post => Business and Job Networking => Topic started by: Dave Ridley on October 24, 2007, 09:38 PM NHFT

Title: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Dave Ridley on October 24, 2007, 09:38 PM NHFT
I have a domain name i'd like to get redirected to an existing page.  who's the best company to have that done?
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: JonM on October 24, 2007, 09:46 PM NHFT
most registrars do forwarding.  Otherwise, you can transfer it to he who must not be named's registrar.
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: PowerPenguin on October 25, 2007, 02:49 AM NHFT
I do it through my imhosted.com hosting account via cpanel. It takes all of 20 seconds and is transparent.
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: penguins4me on October 25, 2007, 02:56 AM NHFT
Depending on what you mean by "existing page", this could be done by merely asking someone with control of a DNS server to add an entry into their records, while you add two IP addresses into your domain name registrar's control panel to point to said DNS server.

It would probably help if you would be able to post the URI of the existing page in question.
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Dan on October 25, 2007, 07:12 AM NHFT
QuoteRegistrant:
   David Ridley
   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   Keene, New Hampshire 03431
   United States

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: RIDLEYREPORT.COM
      Created on: 04-Oct-07
      Expires on: 05-Oct-08
      Last Updated on: 04-Oct-07

My guess is that he want's to point www.ridleyreport.com to youtube.com/ridleyreport

:)
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Dan on October 25, 2007, 07:13 AM NHFT
Dave:  Use godaddy's "Domain Forwarding & Masking" (https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/domain_offer.asp?ci=545&app%5Fhdr=)
QuoteDirect different WWW addresses to an existing site. When someone types your domain name into a browser, they will automatically be forwarded/redirected to whatever URL you choose. And with masking, users don't see the underlying address; only what they type.

You've already paid for it.
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: J’raxis 270145 on October 25, 2007, 07:56 PM NHFT
Quote from: Dan on October 25, 2007, 07:13 AM NHFT
Dave:  Use godaddy's "Domain Forwarding & Masking" (https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/domain_offer.asp?ci=545&app%5Fhdr=)
QuoteDirect different WWW addresses to an existing site. When someone types your domain name into a browser, they will automatically be forwarded/redirected to whatever URL you choose. And with masking, users don't see the underlying address; only what they type.

You've already paid for it.

I'm not sure how GoDaddy does it, but many sites do this with frames by putting the target webpage in a single, full-size frame. This doesn't always work right, however. In some cases, the target website contains a bit of code to "break out" of frames, rendering the frame trick useless. And more importantly, the frames can interfere with navigation and bookmarking; when someone clicks a link to go elsewhere, everything may continue to load within the frame.
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Dave Ridley on October 26, 2007, 02:04 PM NHFT
ridleyreport.com is up thanks
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Dan on October 26, 2007, 07:14 PM NHFT
Well.. gimme karma!
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: Rosie the Riveter on October 26, 2007, 07:18 PM NHFT
Quote from: Dan on October 26, 2007, 07:14 PM NHFT
Well.. gimme karma!

You're nice and smart  ;)
Title: Re: who's best company to redirect domain name?
Post by: PowerPenguin on October 27, 2007, 10:33 PM NHFT
Dada, you should change the WHOIS info to "private" if you can. Don't want people to target you any more than you can help, right?