: GoDaddy's 301 redirect/forwarding has some weird random middleman URL, kills link juice? I'm trying to use GoDaddy's 301 redirect, which is named as domain forwarding. I set up forwarding DomainA.com

@Vandalay111

In order to do a 301 redirect, there needs to be a server at the specified location to reply to the browsers request for content with a location like:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: www.domainb.com

This is necessary because the server has to reply to the browser over HTTP with a response. This kind of redirect cannot be done with DNS because that is not the purpose of DNS.

You might consider setting a CNAME record for DomainA.com with DomainB.com as the value. Your DNS zone might look something like:

NAME TYPE VALUE
-------------------------------------------------- domaina.com. CNAME domainb.com. www.domainb.com. A 192.0.2.23


You would also have to ensure that any MX records (tells mail servers where to send email for a domain) for DomainA.com are updated to point to the host at DomainB.com so email can be routed accordingly (if necessary).

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