What is it? Is that the same as hosting multiple domains? So you log in and you see all domains as folders on the same account... OR is it like this:

http://www.mydomain.com
then
http://www.myotherdomain.com is actually sent to
http://www.mydomain.com/other (but isn't this just forwarding?)

Domain Pointers is usually just domain2.com forwarding to domain1.com

Originally posted by delarathe
What is it? Is that the same as hosting multiple domains? So you log in and you see all domains as folders on the same account... OR is it like this:

http://www.mydomain.com
then
http://www.myotherdomain.com is actually sent to
http://www.mydomain.com/other (but isn't this just forwarding?)

If you 'point' myotherdomain.com at mydomain.com you would generally make the A record in the DNS of myotherdomain.com the same IP as mydomain.com. (trickier with shared IP's)

Forwarding or redirection is different in that you can 'point' at a specific URL.

You won't log in and see all the domains in one web site/http account if that's what you mean..

..unless of course by 'domain pointer' you mean a PTR record in DNS... in which case you might visit the kings of DNS at http://www.menandmice.com and read up on the subject.

Cheers.

delarathe,

When we (Site5) refer to "domain pointers", we mean a second domain name on the same account as your primary domain. This "domain pointer" will point to a subdirectory of your main domain name. For example, if your primary domain is domain1.com and you setup domain2.com as a pointer, the actual folder that domain2.com points to is "domain1.com/domain2".

Of course, that's just Site5's own little take on it. I'm not exactly sure if that's a universally accepted meaning.

Best Regards,
Matt Lightner
mlightner@site5.com

I think it somewhat varies from host to host. One of those things you have to specifically ask the host about if it isn't clearly defined. I've seen it both ways.

Our take on it probably the more 'normal' way, in that an account can have a second domain name point to the same site as the original account (handy for getting that .net, and .org name to point at the .com one for example).

In short, another domain name 'points' to the original account. Matt's idea seems to allow you to 'double up' accounts somewhat by directing to a sub-directory. Pretty handy for a few things I would imagine :)

Greg Moore

Thanks a lot for all your input. I understand much better now.