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### Serving Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding)

If you need to serve a domain name or several domain names that point to a Web site hosted on another server:

1. Go to Home > Domains group title menu > Create Domain.
2. Select the user account that will own the new domain.
3. Specify the domain name.

   Leave the www check box selected if you wish to allow users to access the site by a common and habitual URL like www.your-domain.com. Having the www alias preceding the domain name will allow users to get to the site no matter what they type in their browsers: www.your-domain.com and your-domain.com will both point to the site.

4. If you have a number of IP addresses to choose from, select the required address from the Assign IP address menu.

   Bear in mind that e-commerce sites need a dedicated IP address (not shared among other sites) to implement Secure Sockets Layer data encryption.

5. Leave the Create domain without template option selected in the Use domain template settings menu.
6. Select the Mail and DNS check boxes.
7. Under Hosting Type, select Forwarding.
8. Specify the destination URL: the current Web site address that you would like this domain to point to.
9. Select the type of forwarding: Frame forwarding or Standard forwarding.

   With standard forwarding, a user is redirected to the site and the actual site's URL is shown in the user's browser, so the user always knows that he or she is redirected to another URL. With frame forwarding, a user is redirected to the site without knowing that the site actually resides at another location, therefore, Frame forwarding should be preferred.

10. Click Finish.