What is Web Forwarding?

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What is Web Forwarding?

You may already have a website if so the web redirection allows you to 'forward' or 'point' to your domain to a particular site hosted elsewhere on the Internet - e.g. on freespace allocated by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Example:

http://www.yourdomainname.com

forwards to: http://freespace.virgin.net/your_user_name/index.html

You can choose wether to mask the forwarding or not. URL masking keeps your domain name in the browser address bar by holding the underlying web address you are forwarding to in a HTML frameset. Turning the masking off sets the forwarding to do a HTTP 302 re-direct and the forwarding address will appear in the browser address bar.

Please allow up to 1 hour for the web forwarding to become active. Newly registered domain names please allow up to 24 hours.