Hi, I got a new Laptop from Dell and they offered a free new Website with a Free .com But I don't want to use the tools offered by Office Small Business live and I would like to redirect that domain to another host I have. How can I do that?? Please help.. Thanks a lot
Well if you have access to the domain controls at the domain register and/or where the domain is parked? You can set up a domain forward there, where the domain name goes to another domain name.. You set up and make a cname record there that looks like this. domain1.com goes to domain2.com Another way, which can be done if the domain is hosted on a live host server? Is to use a 301 redirect.. that is set up on the host server of where that domain is hosted. You would place redirect code in the .htaccess file. Code like so if on Linux server: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Please REPLACE www. newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name. Boulder
OUCH! Should have done some research on this before you got your free "prisoned" .com. You'd need to get it out of their control and somehow to another registrar to have "real" control over your name.
If you don't care about it, I'd say move on. There are some "how-to" posts on how to get your domain out of the Microsoft registrar. I remember setting up 3 sites with Office... pain in the a$$ doing what I wanted with 'em!
http://www.windowsobserver.com/2006/04/27/office-live-domain-transfer http://suthrnjewl.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E01148F363DA088A!625.entry?wa=wsignin1.0 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...lt&cd=1&q=transfer+office+live+domain&spell=1