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Title: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: monkeybomb on October 23, 2006, 03:10:40 pm

Alright,  I have a domain name through godaddy and an ebay store.  How to I make the domain name automatically go to the e-bay store?

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: SirPeale on October 23, 2006, 04:39:24 pm

I know how to do it thru joker.com, but haven't had any experience with godaddy.com.  I imagine it's similar, though.

You need to setup a 'domain forward'.  I'm guessing somewhere in the setup portion there are options for this.  You'll have to enter the URL you want forwarded to when someone enters your domain name in.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: ChadTower on October 23, 2006, 04:45:27 pm

Ebay may not like that, though.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: drunkatuw on October 23, 2006, 04:47:20 pm

Peale is right, login at godaddy.com, click on my account.

Than click on "Manage Domain Forwarding"
Click on your domain name
In the "Forward to:" box enter the URL to your ebay store.
Be sure to click "Enable" near the top. 

Hit "Ok" and wait a few hours for it to become active.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: SirPeale on October 23, 2006, 04:50:34 pm

Quote from: ChadTower on October 23, 2006, 04:45:27 pm

Ebay may not like that, though.

Shouldn't be a problem, all it does is bring you directly to that page on eBay's server.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: ChadTower on October 23, 2006, 05:04:32 pm

Not a technical problem, no.

Could be a policy problem.  I suspect we'd be seeing more of this type of thing out there if it were allowed.  It would be against policy to prevent domain spoofing or misrepresentation of Ebay's IP.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: monkeybomb on October 23, 2006, 08:16:18 pm

Thanks Guys, I got it working.  I had no idea it was already paid for and ready to go.


As for the debate.  I think ebay encourages it as a way to generate traffic.  If I'm wrong, maybe they'll let me know.  I hope not.

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: mccoy178 on October 24, 2006, 04:25:45 am

Dude, that's just Chad's way of saying, "Have a nice day." We all know he is very special. :applaud:

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: boykster on October 24, 2006, 03:47:24 pm

If every cloud has a silver lining, then Chad will seek it out and point out the fact that its not really silver, its more grey, and grey clouds mean rain

 :badmood:

Title: Re: Rookie Web Question. It's help the noob day! Yeaaaaaaah!
Post by: Zakk on October 24, 2006, 07:28:41 pm

and deadlt lightning.  Don't forget the lightning.  :badmood: