Your hosting allows you to add domain aliases to your account; a domain alias is a secondary domain which will display the same content as your main domain. An example of a case where you would wish to add a domain alias is if you own multiple variations of the same domain name (for example, multiple spellings or domain extensions) and wish for those domains to redirect back to your main website. You can add domain aliases from the Control Panel.

To set up a domain alias:

  1. Click the Domain Aliases icon on your Control Panel home page.
  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 Synchronize DNS zone with the primary domain check box if you want the domain alias to use the same DNS zone resource records as in primary domain. With this setting, any subsequent changes in resource records of the primary domain’s zone will be applied to the DNS zone of this domain alias. 
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Select the Java Web applications check box if you have Java applications installed on your site and you want them to be accessible through the domain alias.
  8. Click OK.

 

To remove an alias from a domain:

  1. Click Domain Aliases on your Control Panel home page.
  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.