: Free domains for site names? I am going to create a forum for my clan from a game and I was looking for a way to point/redirect to an ugly/long domain name from a shorter domain name. I

@Turnbaugh106

If the question really is just about redirecting from one domain to a site on another, I have some solutions:

Frame forwarding

Where you set up a frameset on a page that basically takes up 100% of the page and loads the content from another site into it.

So you type: site1.com and it has a simple HTML frame page, which then loads in sitwithlongurl.com/evenlongerbit
Advantage - no server access needed other than FTP and the ability to upload a simple page. Users will see your short URL in their browser bar.
Disadvantage - your short URL won't get indexed as the full site, it will just be indexed as one single page of frames; not really ideal (i'd hide it from the index anyway as it will be duplicate content).

HTTP Redirect

Where you set up a page on your domain that simply redirects, ie using PHP:


<?php
header("location: www.sitwithlongurl.com/evenlongerbit );
die;
?>



Advantage - its pretty clean, its transparent. Teleports users directly to the long URL and makes no secret of what its doing.
Disadvantage - You'll need PHP on the hosting server. Fairly common tho.

DNS

If you have control of DNS records, you can manipulate them and forward to another site at that level.

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