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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. This can be done by using Domain Aliases function located on your Home Page.

To set up a domain alias:

  1. Click the Domain Aliases icon.
  2. Click the Add Domain Alias icon.
  3. 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.

  4. Select the Mail check box, 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.

    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 the Mail check box.

  5. Select the Web check box. Otherwise, the web server will not serve the web content to users coming to your site by typing the domain alias in their browsers.
  6. Click OK.

To change the properties of an alias:

  1. Click the Domain Aliases icon.
  2. Click the alias name you need.
  3. Click the Preferences icon in the Tools group.

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

  1. Click the Domain Aliases icon.
  2. Click the alias name you need.
  3. Click DNS.
  4. Add, edit or remove the resource records as required:

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

To remove an alias from a domain:

  1. Click the Domain Aliases icon.
  2. Select a check box corresponding to the domain alias that you want to remove.
  3. Click Remove Selected.
  4. Confirm removal and click OK.