Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases)

If you have registered with a domain name registrar several domain names that you would like to point to the same web site that you host on this server, you should set up domain aliases.

If you need to serve several domain names that point to a web site hosted on another server, you should set up domain forwarding: see the section "Serving Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding)" for instructions.

To set up a domain alias:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name for which you wish to set up additional domain names.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Click Add Domain Alias.
4. Type the desired domain alias name, for example alias.com.

   Domain aliases can comprise letters, digits and hyphens. Each part of the domain alias between dots should not be longer than 63 symbols.

5. Select the type of domain alias: Web+FTP or Web+FTP+Mail.

   If you want e-mail directed at the e-mail addresses under the domain alias to be redirected to the e-mail addresses under your original domain name, select Web+FTP+Mail.

   Example: You have an e-mail address mail@yourdomain.com. You have set up an alias for your domain name, for example, alias.com. If you want to receive mail to your mailbox mail@yourdomain.com when it is sent to mail@alias.com, select Web+FTP+Mail as the type of the domain alias.

6. Click OK.

To change the properties of an alias:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Click the alias name you need.
4. Click Preferences in the Tools group.

To modify resource records in the DNS zone of a domain alias:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Click the alias name you need.
4. Click DNS.
5. Add, edit or remove the resource records as required:
   • To add a resource record to the zone, click Add New DNS Record. Specify the required values and click OK to write the values to the zone.
   • To modify a resource record, under the Host column, click a hyperlink corresponding to the record you need.
   • To remove a record, select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove and click Remove Selected.

To learn more about DNS resource records modification and other DNS-related options, refer to the Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Domains and the Serving Sites with External Domain Name Servers sections.

To remove an alias from a domain:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Select a check box corresponding to the domain alias that you want to remove.
4. Click Remove Selected.
5. Confirm removal and click OK.