Domain Name Pointer

On the Internet, you found a plenty of websites of same theme so its not easy for any searcher to find you easily on web. Most of businesses uses multiple domain name to prevent competitors or other persons from registering names similar to their websites and the searcher can locate you easily among several websites. The other reason behind multiply domain name is to point or redirect visitors who type in your domain name to another location.

Domain name pointer is a web hosting feature that allows you to redirect your visitor to their primary domain name. Multiple domain names provide strength to your business websites.

Why do you need a Domain Name Pointer?

If you want to prevent competition of similar domain name with different extensions, you need a multiple domains for your website and a domain pointer. Like if you have two registered domain names for example one is domainpointer.com and other is domainnamepointer.net you would use a domain pointer here. If any visitor entered domainnamepointer.net you can redirect that visitor to you primary website.

So it is good option of hosting a single web site or multiple web sites under single or multiple domain names and to make your business website competitive. For redirection you have to choose a web hosting that supports domain pointer. With the help of domain pointer you may point visitor to a sub-directory i.e where you put the website files of the main website . Domain pointers have full email functionalities like POP email accounts, email forwarders, mailing lists, etc.

Domain pointer is easy to set up by going to SiteAdminstration > Manage My Domains > Add a Domain Pointer. It is similar to web forwarding but it provide more reliability, compatible and as it involves less connections than web forwarding that why it is more quicker to browse your websites.