Hi all
If you got a domain name for you site www.thissite.com and that has your address and name servers.

You have a subdomain subdomain.thissite.com
now you get another domain name - anotherdomain.com and you want to link that to the subdomain -> subdomain.thissite.com what do you need to do/change setup?

You want to link anotherdomain.com to subdomain.thissite.com ?

Depends what you mean by link. I will therefore make an assumption and say a CNAME is what you want.

I think its an alias.

Some hosts will not directly support an alias though as Ive just found with GoDaddy. I need to get their deluxe package to do that.

Thing is nige lots of hosts offer services that arent really anything to do with dns. They just do it programatically and give the user a nice interface to make it look like its DNS.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeI think its an alias.

Some hosts will not directly support an alias though as Ive just found with GoDaddy. I need to get their deluxe package to do that.

Roflmao... google!

Zoneedit.com Ive used them for years in the past, havent used them recently but yeah... upto 5 domains hosted for free, with subdomains, mx records, cname (also known as aliases ), Aname.

Simple.

Why buy a really expensive package just for a service that someone provides freely?

Im not that bothered actually Rich, I only paid Ã,£50 for three years of hosting, with more bandwidth and space than I can shake a stick at.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeIm not that bothered actually Rich, I only paid Ã,£50 for three years of hosting, with more bandwidth and space than I can shake a stick at.

lol true but never ever give em more money for a service they should provide for free with all their packages Same with limits on subdomains, hate reading that on a host. Its costs them no extra to do it, they just dont let you have more than 25 or something ridiculous.

Doesnt a CNAME only repoint within the same domain?

What hes asking for is what I recognised as a different type of alias because the subdomain it points to is part of another domain. At least thats how I had it configured when I was using ETGlobal.

ignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it

Quote from: Clockd 0NeDoesnt a CNAME only repoint within the same domain?

Im not aware of any restrictions other than a CNAME cannot point to another cname, although Im sure in practice you could do so.

Quote from: neXusignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it

Dont worry, they will probably ignore you anyway and be still arguing next month...

Quote from: Serious

Quote from: neXusignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it

Dont worry, they will probably ignore you anyway and be still arguing next month...

IF the kids are happy let them play with it