Fee charged to forward domain at registrar?

There is a fee unless I want ads

[vmills]

I usually register with godaddy, where forwarding is free. I just don't understand why register.com is charging so much. Have I missed something? Is there some other way to do a server side redirect with register.com? I'm not affiliated with any domain registrar - I just have a client with an account at register.com who is moving to a new domain. Looking at the numbers, I want to recommend that they change registrars, but the charges at register.com seem so out of line with the competition that I thought I'd check here in case there's something I'm missing.

[Terabytes]

can't you simply park the old domain at the new host...
no charge...and you get your redirection issue solved via a 301 redirect at the new host...

perhaps I'm missing something in your post..

[vmills]

Terabytes - sorry but I don't understand what you are suggesting. I thought you could only park a domain with a domain registrar, not a hosting company (which I assume you mean by "host"). I also thought that a parked domain would still return results in a browser, meaning if someone typed in myoldsite.com, the URL would remain myoldsite.com. What I want is for anyone typing in myoldsite.com to be automatically redirected to mynewsite.com. If you know how to do this via a parked domain, could you provide more detailed instructions?

Thanks!

[Terabytes]

You simply have to change DNS on the old domain name to point towards the new site...

(now requests for the old domain are going to the new site)

then park your old domain at the new hosting (the control panel should be straighforward for this), and redirect any requests for the old domain via a 301 redirect to send them to the new domain...

no cost, no hassle...

let me know if you have trouble...I can give you a sample 301 redirect that you can implement using your domain names...

it may sound hard...but it's pretty easy to do...If I can do it...you can do it... 8-)

Tera

[jtara]

Most hosts don't provide free parking. Most registrars do. There are also third-party parking services. However, forwarding!= parking, so parking is irrelevant to the problem.

Forwarding is nothing more than a web server sending a redirect in response to an HTTP request. It has nothing to do with registration, other than the fact that most registrars provide this as a free service. But it has NOTHING to do with registration, in a technical sense.

If your client's hosting plan permit multiple domains, simply host the old domain on the same server, and set-up redirects in the server configuration. If not, the cost of a basic hosting account that will permit redirects (some really cheap hosting accounts don't) will certainly be less than the price quoted above.

Oh, I suspect, though, that you mean $49/YEAR and I was thinking $49/MONTH. In that case, let them pay the $49 and transfer out of their current registrar when they can. This is a minor one-time expense.