Domain Forwarding
  • I have registered a domain but not ready to go down the route of having the site there yet. So...does anyone have a recommendation for a domain forwarding service that is cheap and reliable.

    cheers.
  • benlovesmusicbenlovesmusic
    I just use 1and1.com. It's super-cheap.
  • BurningOakBurningOak
    Well if you used GoDaddy.com to register the forwarding is free and found under your Domain options. I'm not sure about other registrars.
  • EddieEddie
    Indeed, forwarding should be a standard feature with any registrar. I've never found one that didn't offer it for free as part of the service.
  • songsillinoissongsillinois
    Can you guys assume that we're all idiots and explain forwarding. do we sitll keep the blogger account and post regularly through there? but all the info and archives magically appear at our .com
  • dan underqualifieddan underqualified
    Forwarding will allow you to stay with blogger and do everything as you normally would. Say you registered foo.com and forwarded it to songsillinoismp3.blogspot.com. Then, anybody who went to foo.com would see songsillinois as usual, but it would say foo.com in the address bar. There's a big however, here, in that it only works for the main page, because in reality it's only faking that the domain is hosted at blogspot. All your permalinks and everything would stay as http://songsillinoismp3.blogspot.com/2006/04/outtake-from-salim-nourallahs.html. It will not work to use links such as http://foo.com/2006/04/outtake-from-salim-nourallahs.html.

    Does that make sense?
  • songsillinoissongsillinois
    that makes sense but if someone visits foo.com they'll be able to view all the archived links but they just won't say foo.com/wahtever.html

    it's not a negative is it?
  • dan underqualifieddan underqualified
    No, it's not negative really, it's just what it is. It can be a bit confusing to people that might not know what's going on, and it can also trap the address bar to say "foo.com" all the time, even as they click around your site or even click your blogroll and go to other sites. But in general it's a quick and cheap way to have a real domain.
  • Taylor musicforantsTaylor musicforants
    hostway is what i use. its like 5 dollars a year.
  • Thanks for the help all. Seems the registrar can forward the domain after all - now to get it to work! cheers.
  • RachelRachel
    So I have been trying to get my blogspot address to point to my own domain for the last week and I keep getting an error saying "this domain already has a blog hosted" yet it doesn't. Dreamhost is my hosting provider.

    Has anyone encountered this problem? And were you able to resolve the issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
  • matt_skatterbrainmatt_skatterbrain

    i use the blogger custom domain

  • matt_skatterbrainmatt_skatterbrain
    whats unfortunate about that is that http://www.skatterbrain.org is ineffective and only http://skatterbrain.org works...
  • RachelRachel
    Yeah that's what I have been trying to use but it keeps giving me this error message and I have searched everywhere for a solution but it seems this issue has yet to be addressed by our good friends at Blogger...
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