deejay - 8:31 pm on Sep 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi Hollyhats

I think maybe you mean IP address rather than URL?

Domain name: www.mysite.com

URL: www.mysite.com/page1.html (technically a specific page rather than a whole domain)

IP address: that weird set of numbers that identifies where your domain lives.

If you change hosts and move your domain and all the pages of your site (URLs), then you need to advise whoever your domain name registrar is of the new IP address for your site (get it from your new host). It will take a couple of days for it to be reset, but that is all you will have to do generally and your traffic will be sent to the new IP address.

I understand some search engines/indexes do record your listing with them by the IP address rather than the URL, but they should take care of themselves in fairly short order.

I've just moved a site myself... took about 48 hours for it to switch over. Pretty painless really.