If you have registered a domain name with us as a domain name only account, we can redirect (forward) your domain name to another Web page, anywhere on the Internet, at no extra charge.
For example, if your domain name is example.com and someone types www.example.com in a Web browser, we can redirect that to a completely different address, such as http://www.geocities.com/example/.
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With "normal" redirection, the Web site address in the visitor's Web browser will change to display the new address.
If you prefer, we can set up "masked" redirection, in which case the address bar will still show "www.example.com". However, masked redirection relies on a quirky feature of HTML (framesets) that has two major drawbacks:
For these reasons, most people choose "normal" redirection, even though it means the address bar changes.
You may also want to compare these redirect options to our domain name alias service, which keeps the address bar intact without any of these drawbacks (and which offers e-mail forwarding, too). However, a domain name alias can only be used if Tiger Technologies also hosts the "real" Web site.
To set up redirection for a domain name that's already registered as a "domain name only account" with us, just contact us and we'll set it up right away. Be sure to tell us whether you want the address "masked" or not.
If you need redirection for a brand new domain name, just sign up for a domain name only account on our home page and contact us afterwards.
If you have an existing Web hosting account with us that you'd like to cancel and convert to a domain name redirect, you can do this on the cancel Web hosting service screen of the Web hosting control panel.
Keep in mind that a redirect does not forward e-mail for the domain name. If you want to receive e-mail as well, we recommend our Web hosting plan. For a low monthly price, you get a free domain name, comprehensive e-mail support, and a Web site with no annoying advertising.
If you ask for an entire domain name to be redirected elsewhere with masked redirection, we'll take care of the whole thing for you. However, our Web hosting customers occasionally ask if they can use the technique themselves to redirect a single file or directory elsewhere, and they want to know how this is done.
The trick is to create a "frameset" HTML page, like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <frameset rows="100%,*" border="0"> <frame name="__main" src="http://www.example.com/target/" noresize frameborder="0"> <noframes> <h2>Your Web browser does not support frames</h2> <p> Please click the link to visit <a href="http://www.example.com/target/">www.example.com/target/</a> directly. </p> </noframes> </frameset> </html>
(Of course, you'd replace "www.example.com/target/" with the URL address of the destination of the redirect.)