Do you charge customers for pointing more than one domain to their web site? Take the poll and post your additional comments - including prices if you don't mind disclosing them (if you do them no problem, your input is still appreciated!) Thanks:D

No, we don't charge anything extra. Domains pointed to the same main page cause no extra bandwidth usage, so if it's not costing us anything, why should we charge our customers for it?

Hi Avail,

I have seen hosts that do and hosts that don't and I was interested in the ratio. One host I know of charges a $25 set-up for each domain you want to point to your web site. I wondered in this was normal or not and what others did.

Thanks for your input :D

Our resellers can do that themselves :P. If your on a limited domain license, such as plesk, you might charge for domain aliasing as it is taking up one of your licenses.

Hi AcuNett,

Thanks for the post. We ourselves don't have any limitations on domains, we use Ensim. We currently don't charge for domain aliasing. The Poll is currently at 75% of hosts don't charge either - which is the kind of data I was trying to find out. I really appreciate your comment - thanks again :)

Does that $25 include domain registration?
You can register domains for around $10/year, and a large majority of registrars offer free nameserver entries so that you can have your domains redirect to any other URL...
If you did have s situation (say, with plesk) where it costs you (the host) money to do this I would reccommend setting up something like this, a seperate nameserver of your own to do redirects on, or just use another registrar, one I know of that will do this is registerfly.com

just my 2 cents.

Hi TheException

Thanks for your input. No I don't believe it does include domain registartion - it seems to be a one-time set-up fee for aliasing the domain to the site.

Just wanted to note that some companies have something very similar called domain pointers. These pointers doesn't point to your main domain name, but to a subdirectory of it. It also comes with a catch all email forwarding. This way, a user can have multiple domains hosted on the same plan, sharing the same resources.

pointing at subs or domains shouldn't be charged for. It's all of 5 minutes work to get them set up. Sometimes it's about helping your customers out, instead of nabbing a few extra bucks.

Greg Moore