Say I own a domain name widgets.com where I market the worlds finest widgets. It is a lucrative business, yet I decide to expand my products line to inlcude wickets .
I design a whole new web site about my wonderful wickets and want to upload it and run it off my existing website account and server space. However, since widget buyers are so opposed to wickets in general, I can’t have the address to my site on wickets have the widgets.com in its address. If I used widgets.com/wickets for the website, then anyone could easily see that I deal with widgets and shorten the address and go through my widget site.
I know I could use my actual IP address in place of widget in the address, but still someone could just shorten the address and find the core website.
Is there a way to have a webpage address to my wickets website, on my widgets server site, without the surfer being able to easily go to the widgets site from looking at the webpage address, or will I just have to get a new domain and account for the wickets site?
Thanks to glowing reccomendations from several dopers i registered my domains with godaddy.com. ITs not uncommon to see domains going for tiny amounts. It might also help your business to have boths widgets.com and wickets.com just for recognition and potential accidental discovery by pervy wicket fanciers.
There are atleast 2 ways in which this could be done.
Check if your hosting provider offers “add-on” domains for your existing hosting package. Note that you would still have to purchase wickets.com. You can then “add-on” the wickets.com domain on your existing widgets.com hosting space, and they will both live happily ever after without one showing the existence of the other
Use stealth redirecting, offered for free from www.mydomain.com . You still need to buy wickets.com, then enable stealth redirecting for wickets.com to widgets.com/wickets. Then, when a user types www.wickets.com they will be taken to www.widgets.com/wickets but they will still see only www.wickets.com in the address bar, and for all practical purposes it will work like an independent domain. Note that they will still very briefly see “connecting to widgets.com” in the lower status bar of the browser when connecting to wickets.com. You can buy the domain from any registrar, but you will need to modify your domain to use mydomain.com’s NS1 and NS2.
I use a single bluehost.com account for hosting with “add-on accounts” and godaddy.com (with privacy) for all of my domain names. There are some domains that I most certainly don’t want to get mixed up with others, and I have perfect success at it.
If this were a real situation, you should avoid having the two items thru the same domain. There’s a variety of ways an individual, by accident or by intention may discover widgets and wickets are on the same domain, and if discovered the cat’s out of the bag. Wicket haters will post the fact somewhere or vice versa.
For example, if you forwarded the wickets domain with masking into the widgets site, someone might enter “wickets” into a SE and the wickets pages might be returned, but the real address could appear, showing widgets in the URL. Even worse, both the real and masked addresses might show in the results consecutively!