Posted by dorayme on 09/01/06 23:25

In article <fpWdnU8NEYvI4GXZnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <jPudnTW3VIucZmvZnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> > Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I may be missing something but you already have what you want through
> >> your ISP, Comcast. It's called Personal Web Pages. Once you register a
> >> domain name you can redirect traffic to that address to your Comcast page.
> >
> > mm... good point... I vaguely wondered about this when I
> > registered a personal website... I have webspace coming out of my
> > ears via my broadband isp, via compliant friends who never need
> > their free allotment, etc. And yet I coughed up for hosting just
> > for it with a company (different to my isp). True, not much, 40
> > miserable downunder buckeroos. I use the free webspace elsewhere
> > to supplement the miserable 10MB that comes for the 40 to make
> > for respectable elbow room but... it seems that this scurrilous
> > cheapskate cadging strategy of mine is not quite as low as I can
> > get eh? Might have to look into it. What do you do, ask the
> > registrar of the domain to point it to where I want? Perhaps the
> > downside - I think as I type, sorry - is the domain url changes
> > in the browser url field of the website user? mm... might be
> > worth the 40 after all to avoid this...
> >
>
> Your domain company should have a "control panel" or some such online
> tool for you to manage your domain. It is there that you can setup
> email addresses, sub-domains (see links below), and redirection.
>
> My ISP (Comcast) subscription gives me 7 email addresses each of which
> has 25 Mb of Web page storage space. My main domain name (edmullen.net)
> simply redirects to one or more of my Comcast Web spaces. You can set
> up the redirection as either URL Redirect (where the actual URL of the
> final destination is shown to the user) or URL Frame (where only the
> domain name is shown, not the actual URL, path or page.
>

OK, but it is right that I would then lose the advantage of the
domain url staying as is in the browser url text field, yes?

> By the way, I never noticed it before but SeaMonkey's spell checker just
> asked if I wanted to change "dorayme" to "deodorant." :-D

mm... what can I say? I have used all my spellcheckers in all my
computers to try to turn something provocative on you and have
failed, I get as first options usually Mullen, or Mullein. You
have a very safe name Ed, and I am quite jealous. Interested in
selling it? Good terms mate, I trade in dorayme to you for
discount..

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dorayme

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