Just wondering how people are charging for domain forwarding?

A lot of registrars will do this for free, so I generally let clients forward other domains if they have an account with us.

However, I don't think that includes forwarding of emails.


Also, Correct me if I am wrong, but forwarding domains through the Ensim control panel won't forward emails right?

To forward email addresses a hosting account would have to be created and email accounts created and forwarded as per normal. Is this correct?

ps. I tired editing my /etc/httpd/conf/virtual/site to do a forward and it didn't seem to forward email addresses, though. I'm just wondering if there is another way?

-Fractal

I let them have 'forwarding' for free, thats an existing email address on a domain actually hosted going to something like hotmail.

I offer 'aliasing' of domains which is domain2.com going to domain1.com and email to user@domain2.com going to user@domain1.com for a small fee, is this what you mean?

I offer domain aliasing completely free. I just doesn't seem right to charge them for it, since its pointing to the same content.

secwrd: Yes, domain aliasing is what I mean. I think I will do the email forwarding for a small fee as well.

Just to confirm: Setting up a domain alias won't automatically forward the emails right? (ie. from the aliased domain to the main domain which is hosted on an RS server running Ensim)

-Fractal

I do domain aliasing and e-mail forwarding in the domain registries dns controlpanel--no load on my server.

Just get a registrar that offers this. It's one of the main reasons I'm an eNom reseller. 90% of my client's domains also are with me and it really makes hosting life a lot easier--no hassles with un-cooperative registrars, and if a server goes down, I can point a domain to another IP in a few seconds.

That's interesting. If let's say one of your servers goes down, and you point a domain to another server right away. Doesn't it still take 24-48 hours for that change to propogate throughout the internet?

-Fractal

No, it's immediate because you're not changing name servers.

The only way there might be a delay is if someone at an ISP had just accessed the site and the ISP retained the old IP in their cache.

Even then, most ISPs update their caches every few hours at least.

they can checkout http://www.mydomain.com/ for the domain and email forwarding. it's free!

What are we in this business for--everybody is giving away everything for free:(

Everyone has there "hook". I'm sure mydomain.com wouldn't even care that I give away domain names for free - the catch is, the user has to sign up for a hosting account.

I've seen others give out free hosting with domain registration.

I've even seen some hosting "companies" give out free hosting with no catches - no banners, php, mysql, a descent amount of bandwidth and space - the works - for FREE. They only charge for upgraded packages. Problem is - they get so many people signing up that their services are really slow!!!

The thing is, you usually get what you pay for. First thing you learn is "Never compete on price" and "Never make your buying decisions solely based on price in a services industry".

-Fractal