| Webspace & Domain Names This is a discussion on, want new domain name to appear in the browser URL address field within the Freedom2Surf forum; please excuse my naievety in advance etc ... I wanted to change the name of my site so I purchased ... |
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25-05-2005, 04:01 PM
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want new domain name to appear in the browser URL address field
please excuse my naievety in advance etc ...
 I wanted to change the name of my site so I purchased a new domain name and redirected it to my site. all well and good. however, the old domain name still appears in the broswer address bar. How can I make the new domain name appear there?? cheers opaz |
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25-05-2005, 04:17 PM
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url cloaking is it not? does the service for redirecting you bought support it?
http://lineman.net/cloakingandforwarding.html |
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25-05-2005, 04:47 PM
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the site and both domain names are f2s. I couldnt see anything about cloaking..
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25-05-2005, 09:09 PM
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You're pointing your new domain name to your free www.<yourid>.f2s.com website ? If you want your new domain name to appear in the browser URL then I'm sure you have to purchase Web hosting for the new domain.
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25-05-2005, 11:35 PM
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no, my new domain name is pointing to mysite.com which I bought from f2s, the name and the webspace
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26-05-2005, 09:34 AM
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thanks for the link stephenc - it appears that 'cloaking' has some disadvantages
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27-05-2005, 05:55 PM
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is there no way you can simply change the name of the old site?
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