My domain name is up for renewal, and I want to pick the best registration company that can do the following:

1. Forward ALL email--regardless of mailbox--to another domain.
So "anything@mydomain.com" will forward automatically to "anything@myotherdomain.com"--or else to a single box, "nagromme@myotherdomain.com."
(As long as all mail reaches my new domain, I don't care if the separation of mailboxes is lost in the forwarding.)

2. Forward ALL pages to the new site.
So "mydomain.com/anypath/anyfile.xxx" sends people instantly to "myotherdomain.com/anypath/anyfile.xxx"--or else simply sends them to the home page of myotherdomain.com.
(Again, as long as all links to mydomain.com get you to myotherdomain.com successfully, it is OK if the specific page URL is ignored.)

3. Forward all pages regardless of whether the "www." is used or not. That is important.

4. This is ideal but NOT necessary--change the URL entered ("mydomain.com") to "myotherdomain.com." Failing that, if the original "mydomain.com" simply "works as is" like a total mirror of "myotherdomain.com," that would be OK.


Price and stability (uptime, likely to be around for a while) are my main concerns--ease of use is not a big issue. If the best option is to use some service separate from the registration company, that's fine too--in which case I'll go with 000domains.com even though they don't offer the above functionality.

My reason for needing this is that I will be changing my company's Web address in a few months, and once the new site is set up (but BEFORE I shut down the old server) I need to have forwarding of the old address in place, for all the people who have bookmarked my pages or have my email addresses on file. I need to plan for that day in choosing who to renew my name with.

My web host CAN simply park the old domain--but that gets very expensive with my host, and I'd rather not switch hosts. So I am hoping I can get this done for free/low-cost by choosing the right registration company to renew with.

(I already have some other alternate names registered with 000domains.com, and am using bn3.com to forward those to the real site--but those alternates don't need email nor forwarding of bookmarked subpages. For my current needs, this BN3 solution won't be enough: BN3 generates an error if you try to use a specific page address--it only forwards the "bare domain name.")

Thanks!

..but take a look at http://www.redirection.net

Solution:
Find a web host that allow you to have domain pointers set up on your account. That should do exactly what you are looking for.

redirection.net's service does do everything I need--thanks for the link--BUT they only do redirection (one site points to another)--they don't do "conventional" domain registration for a single site. I need to renew my domain name now, but I can't do it with redirection.net because there is no other site to direct to yet--that's a month or two away.

I need a conventional registration service that also offers redirection--so I can activate that feature mid-year when I am ready. Supposedly such services do exist, but I don't know any names and would be more comfortable going to a company that people recommend. Redirection.net is a good suggestion, but if I signed up with them, the redirection would be a fixed thing, not something I wait until I'm ready for. (They seem to be affiliated with a Canadian company that does do conventional registrations--but the two services don't seem to work together.)

Finding another Web host is a possibility too, but I have been burned by too many Web hosts in the past. My current host, Web2010.com, has worked out well for me for many months, and I hesitate to take a gamble on switching. Their cost is good too--I pay under $20/month. But their cost to park an extra domain with email gets quite expensive.

If I have no other options, though, I would be open to recommendations on a good, reliable host at a low cost--and one that allows alternate domain names free of charge, with the capabilities I mentioned above.

I'll keep searching--I'd better get this taken care of Thursday though--my current registration runs out on the 8th. Thanks, all!

The following domain registration companies can do all (itmes 1 to 4) for you:-

DomainDirect.com
NameRegistrars.net

The $15 package comes with domain registration and redirection. It also offer cloacking, catch all e-mail..blah..blah.

The redirection and ns setting can be changed through the control panel on and off.

Anyway, I think it dirt cheap for a $15 year service which also included registration..

If u have questions, why not e-mail them. The customer service aint too bad. I've got responses within the same day

cheers!

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I renewed with netsol again because time ran out. I'll re-investigate forwarding services (maybe something like BN3 only better) in a few months when the need arises.