I know that dotworlds offers dot[anything] domain names, and I have registered 4 of them, but I don't know how they work? It says that you have to have a plugin to view the domains registered from dotworlds, but I'm trying to figure out how to redirect the domain to the one I own. I've registered http://jesus.christ from dotworlds, and I want it to redirect to http://theheavenlyfather.com. What do I do?

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Firstly, it states that it's free..
But are you sure its completely free ?
Or maybe its free for a certain period only.
After which, you will require to pay a fee.

1) An email will be sent to you when you register for a domain.
2) Follow the link in the email and insert the password attachment with the mail.
3) Login to your account and proceed to Control Panel.
4) Click on the domain name you want to configure. For your case, "jesus.christ"
5) Select "Forwarding URL" and enter "http://theheavenlyfather.com" to the textbox.

Hope that helps..

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hum, so let me see if I've got this straight. you want a new domain from your currant one? Is the old one through somone else?

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No I own it, along with lots others, but I found this site, and I wanted to try it.

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that site doesn't offer REAL top level domains. I think they are unsupported by ICANN and that is why you need the plugin to view them. Also note, you cannot choose REAL domains like .com/.net or others that are run by ICANN

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I'm going to forwarn that I have coppied this straight from their website, so please dont suspend me I'm just trying to help this guy out I dont care If I dont get any credits for it anyway...

I have copied this:



so basically what you are looking for is a place where it says redirect, it thould have your domain and then a textbox where you can input the domain you want it to redirect to. I'm sorry I couldnt have been of more help I do not own one of their domains so I really cant try and figure it out better, I hope this helped? If not let me know Ill try and look further into it.

 

 

 

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Well, I've changed the DNS settings for 2 of them, and on the 3rd one, I redirected it to my main site. Then it says that it takes 24 hours for the DNS settings to work, and some time for them to review the redirection URL, but I've waited for almost 3 days, and once I try to go to http://jesus.christ, msn search comes up saying that there is no such URL. The others I try on the site actually tells me that I need to download the plugin, but my sites don't even do that. Anyways, those domains will only be good for email addresses, cause I don't want my visitors to have to download a ActiveX control/Plugin in order to view my site. Thanks by the way.

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well first off you only allowed to register a maximum of 3....But right now im waiting for one of mine to be trasferred at www.slammed.extreme which I just finished adding the trap17 nameserver info and hopefully it will work.....I dunno... at least you didnt pay for them so really there wasnt a loss other than a domain you wanted. Im sorry it didnt work out for ya

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As someone has already pointed out, these are not real domain names. They require a browser plugin which detects when you are attempting to access an existing pseudo-domain name, and directs you to the appropriate site. So to summarise, these 'domain names' are useless and should be avoided, as no one is going to be able to access them.

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No no, these dotworlds domains are real domain names A plugin or redirection makes no difference. no psuedo, its just an address like any other

and I dont think they are useless. I registered one, confirmed it, forwarded it and set up the email. My friends and I have websites using these names and they work perfectly. The email addresses that we got free with them also work very well and you dont need a plugin for the email at all. We communicate with each other and using these addresses we cant be spammed

I think the idea that nobody can access them is just not right at all. You only have to see loads of examples of website of the dotworlds site. They are from all over the world

ANyay, my site is for my friends, if someone else want to vfisit - of course if they have the plugin , thats ok with me but thats not why I set it up in the first place.

I think its a waste to ignore things like this. its new and interessting and there is no cost involved. Maybe this will change and there will be a cost later on, but I think all compnaies on the internet act this way. Once something picks up and gets popular, they always start charging

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