: Is "Redirecting via DNS" a good practice for positioning a website? In order to position a website project I'm planning on getting 3 domain names (example.com, example.org and example.net). Whenever

@Cugini213

There is no way to redirect via DNS, I detailed the reason in this answer.

What your provider is probably offering you, is a proprietary quick solution to configure a redirect that. Internally, that configuration is converted into a DNS record pointing to a server configured in order to handle the redirect either with a server-side configuration or a script created in a server-side programming language such as PHP or Ruby.

All these server-side solutions (server config, programming language, etc) are totally equivalent as long as they result in a HTTP redirection header set in the HTTP response.

This is the standard way of redirecting, thus it's perfectly fine. In your case, you only need to check whether the response is a 301 response (I don't see the 302 appropriate in your case) and the HTTP headers contain the Location header set to your target domain.

You can check it using any HTTP client, such as hurl.it or $ curl.

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