Tuesday, February 8, 2011

How to Activate the Domain Forwarding Service?

Not many know the technique of forwarding their Domain names. Let’s take a look.
For starters complete these easy steps:
  1. Go to your Customer Control Panel or click on My Account if you are logged in to the website
  2. Enter your correct Username & Password
  3. Click on the Domains Tab >> List all Orders
  4. Click on the domain name you wish to Forward
  5. Click ‘Domain Forwarding’ Tab
  6. Click Activate Domain Forwarding.
Setting the Destination URL for your domain name
  1. Login to your Control Panel.
  2. Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
  3. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding button. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
  4. Enter the Destination URL in the text box provided. This may be of the form domain.com, www.domain.com,www.domain.com/index/index.html, subdomain.domain.com, etc.You may also choose http or https protocol from the dropdown menu.
  5. Click the Save button.

Additional FreeBie – URL Masking :)
If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website; however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination domain name.
How does URL Masking work?
  1. Login to your Control Panel.
  2. Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
  3. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding button. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
  4. Select either:
  • The On radio button under URL Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding section for enabling this feature, or
  • The Off radio button for disabling it.
Click the Save button.
Simple isn’t it? Go try it right away!