Website addresses

[Ravenfire]

Sure someone else on here would be able to help.

How easy is it to set up a website and to direct it towards someone elses.

For example, if someone bought a domain name and then directed it towards mine so that when someone clicked on their website address it automatically opened mine, how would it be done?

The reason I ask is that someone bought the .com of my website name and directed it towards their own site (which is another site similar to mine) but is denying it (particularly as originally they directed it towards a porn site). She is insisting however that she never bought the site, that someone else must have done and put her details on there, and that this same person has then directed the .com towards her site.

Hope this makes sense and I wanted to know if its possible for someone to do the above?

Thanks

Toni

 

[The_JinJ]

I have domains through 123reg and to point to another domain is literaly 2 clicks and 1 line (the address)

Here's the owner:

Registrant:
183Web
132
Thorpe Bay, United Kingdom SS1 2TA
UK

Domain name: MUMSZONE.COM

Administrative Contact:
183, 183web [email protected]
132
Thorpe Bay, United Kingdom SS1 2TA
UK
07714107779
Technical Contact:
183, 183web [email protected]
132
Thorpe Bay, United Kingdom SS1 2TA
UK
07714107779


Registration Service Provider:
PIPEX Communications Hosting Ltd, [email protected]
+44.115-917-0000
http://www.123-reg.co.uk/
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 06-Dec-2004.
Record expires on 19-Aug-2006.
Record created on 19-Aug-2004.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.123-REG.CO.UK
NS2.123-REG.CO.UK


Domain status: ACTIVE

 

[Ravenfire]

So in effect could someone else have bought the mumszone.com name and pointed it to another rival site even if they dont own the rival site?

 

[Rob Holmes]

So in effect could someone else have bought the mumszone.com name and pointed it to another rival site even if they dont own the rival site?

Yes.

For a while we had our firewalls pointing to the FBI site so any attempted hacks instantly got redirected to the FBI.

Sorry to get off topic, yes it's dead easy and actually normal practice to redirect different domains to one main domain.

Rob

 

[Ravenfire]

But doesnt that normally happen when you own the domain names yourself? The other site is saying that they dont own the mumszone.com name even though it opens their site when you put it in your browser?

 

[chris1317]

It would make sense to own the name but it is not compulsary, the owner can point it at any site they want but they are waisting their money unless they are the owner of the other site or are in some way getting paid for it.

I could point my domain dns to google.co.uk but it wouldent do me any good, id just be down a tenner a year.

The JinJ gave you the Whois lookup details which have a contact number on them, you could try calling it and see if you get an answer.

Chris.

 

[The_JinJ]

Hi Toni

Did you contact anyone about this? I see the site has been suspended....

Neil

 

[chris1317]

If you look at the title of the page it says

"This domain is for auction on EBAY uk"

Chris.

 

[SillyJokes]

You could check to see if there is an affiliate link in the redirect (don't know how).

We have had affiliates with good related URLS who just point them straight to our site or pages on it.

However using your name.com and directing it elsewhere is passing-off and naughty.

 

[Ravenfire]

Well I am sure it was the other site that I thought considering they emailed me yesterday about this claiming not to know anything, now its no longer directed at their site and up for sale!

Cant find it on ebay either!