Here's the scoop:

I would like my own domain name (e.g.- (url="http://"http://www.nameofsite.com")www.nameofsite.com(/url) ) for an EVO web site I'm in the process of creating. I know you can buy a domain name for around $70, but I don't want to have to pay the monthly fees for hosting my site with its own URL. I've heard you can use URL forwarding, which means when I type in my purchased domain name at "www.nameofsite.com", it automatically forwards you web browser to the actual site at "users.aol.com/~name/index.html" or something. (A good example of this is when you type in "www.mac.com" - go ahead, do it - the URL points your browser to "www.apple.com" !) The advantage of this is that you don't have to pay the monthly fees for hosting you site (your site can be on any server - geocities, aol, etc.), just the one-time payment for the domain name. My question is, how do you do it?!

Theres several ways of doing it. The way I'd suggest is (url="http://"http://www.cjb.net")www.cjb.net(/url) they provede yourname.cjb.net addresses, for free, and forward to anything you want the way mac.com works. The other way you can do it is if you do this special html code that you put on a web page at the specific site and it redirects it to another site, but this way is slow. So I'd go with the cjb.net way, there are other places like that out there too, just don't know any.

Chamrin

TSX.org does the same thing as CJB but it doesn't mask your URL.

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Well, as Chamrin and CelticStarbase have said, easiest way is subdomain forwarding.
I would recommend TSX, despite what Celtic Starbase has said, they offer cloaking now, I just dont use it!
CJB has gotten horribly slow, if it works at all. It's only good feature is the email, but recently, things being sent to my CJB account have taken 5 days to get through...

Concerning domain names, there's a saying in parts of england - you dont get owt for nowt -- I have had experience with 'free' domain names. Dont bother. The service was awful, it took about 5 mins to load a site, and had adverts.

I have found pretty cheap domain name people - the cheapest being US$5/year (based on 2 years) and that includes everything.
I will soon be paying UKŁ10/year, but that gives me subdomains and email as well.
Both of these systems are URL forwarding, which suits me as I have a nice fast server anyways which does everything I want it to.

If you're interested, the US$5/year is supplied by (url="http://"http://www.names4ever.com")www.names4ever.com(/url) - I dont know what they're like though.
Otherwise, just have a look around on the internet - there are a lot of good deals to be had.

-Gildor

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AIM: HE Gildor

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(This message has been edited by Gildor (edited 09-06-2000).)

Nice one gildor, you have just saved my financial status from plumeting into the negative.

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Yeah, actually I knew TSX had masking but they show a banner if you use it or you pay a fee an I though we were talking about the cheapest option so I didn't mention it.

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Originally posted by CelticStarbase:
**Yeah, actually I knew TSX had masking but they show a banner if you use it or you pay a fee an I though we were talking about the cheapest option so I didn't mention it.
**

Oh yes... now, they dont mention that in the signup... oh well sigh

My bad

-Gildor

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jon@jonpearse.f2s.com
AIM: HE Gildor

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

My Bad?

Hope my sig works this time.

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Good, it works.

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Originally posted by CelticStarbase:
**My Bad?
**

Aye, horrible phrase which I seem to have picked up from the americans I deal with on a day to day basis...

-Gildor

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AIM: HE Gildor

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You think you've got it bad! My dad's a Yankee!

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Originally posted by the Necromicon:
**You think you've got it bad! My dad's a Yankee! <IMG SRC="http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/smile.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="15">

**

Which would make you half-yankee.

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Noooooo! It can't be true! I suddenly have an overwhelming urge to eat a cheeseburger! I feel like I should say 'Gee Whiz'! Nooo.....yankees...taking over....<collaps>.....yerg!......<gibber>......."Gee whiz pop! Is it time t go to k-Mart! I hear they've got some swell deals on Ketchup! Wanna game of soccer!"

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(This message has been edited by the Necromicon (edited 09-10-2000).)

Whats soccer got to do with Yankees, I thought they liked baseball and basketball.

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Yeah, they do, but they call footy soccer. Dumbass yankees! We invented football first! Go get an imagination! Make up your own names! Maybe call it brown-egg-ball.

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Originally posted by Gildor:
**Aye, horrible phrase which I seem to have picked up from the americans I deal with on a day to day basis...

-Gildor

**

I agree... and with Necromicon as well. But I still wouldn't move to England.

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Originally posted by Obormot:
**I agree... and with Necromicon as well. But I still wouldn't move to England.;)
**

Im trying to move away from it Ireland sounds nice...

-Gildor

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jon@jonpearse.f2s.com
AIM: HE Gildor

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

That's such a widely held misinformed belief, the english didn't invent football, the Chinese did, and Gildor, before you think of coming over here, organise accomodation first (and bring loads of money to pay for it).

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The original point of this topic was to find the cheapest way to get your own (url="http://"http://www.whatever.com")www.whatever.com(/url) right? Well you can get one for free at (url="http://"http://www.namezero.com")http://www.namezero.com(/url). Then once you've done that, email me and I'll send you some script to block the banners, and/or popups! Great thing about this is you can use any site servor you want, geocities, angelfire, httpcity, dreamwater, etc. The only problems are that unless you put some script in it will have a permanent popup window, and that all it does is forward you from, whatever.com to your real site. It's no problem to get rid of the popup though, just email me!

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Hmm, great could you send me the script?

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