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Purchasing a domain name

Sep 1, 2007 4:00PM PDT

I have a couple of questions. First, I am wanting to purchase a domain name and have it forwarded to another site..how do i do this? Second, since when you purchase your own website you pay for the bandwidth you need based on your traffic flow, would i not need high bandwidth since it would just be forwarded to another site? Any info will be greatly appreciated! THANKS

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Senseless?
Sep 1, 2007 10:19PM PDT

Why not buy the domain name and have it point at the site you want?

Very strange and a small waste to have it point to some other server and then a web page to forward to your final server.

About bandwidth and cost. That's between you and your host. They should explain this.

Bob

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Senseless?
Sep 2, 2007 1:30AM PDT

I cant do this because domain name for this actual site is not for sale. The company makes copies of the entire site to purchasers but the link to the site is not catchy at all so for advertising purposes i would have to buy a separate domain name and have it forwarded to this site.

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Of course you can. Here's how domain name lookups work.
Sep 2, 2007 1:40AM PDT

You buy a name.com and then supply the IP addresses you want it to go to.

Simple as that.

Bob

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If you buy
Sep 2, 2007 11:43AM PDT

a domain name @ godaddy.com for example, you can park your domain with them for free and redirect to any URL you want, which will cost you no bandwidth.

~Sovereign

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domain name
Sep 2, 2007 12:56PM PDT

but doesnt it cost to buy a domain name? I went to them to get a domain and its like $8.95 or something.

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Right
Sep 3, 2007 7:29AM PDT

Like you said, you were looking to buy a domain name.

~Sovereign