Attach a domain name to free isp space?

I'm doubting it - but it never hurts to ask

[animgirl]

Hello,

Was wondering if it's possible to attach a domain name to free isp space that people get.

I'm assuming though that the space would not have any server side scripting capabilites anyway - but I don't know.

Any ideas?
thanx a mill
animgirl

[Jenstar]

If you want people to be able to type www.yourdomain.com and go right to your site hosted at the free ISP, the easiest thing would be to just use the domain forwarding option most registrars offer - you can then redirect all people going to www.yourdomain.com to www.freebieisp.com/yoursite/

[animgirl]

domain forwarding - I don't think I've heard of that.
That's interesting, thanks so much for the information!

[Marcia]

animgirl, if you're interested in search engine rankings for the site you can run into a bit of a problem if people link to the domain name as well as the actual site at the ISP.

When registrars point it it's a 302 (temporary) redirect. When people type in the domain name it's your ISP URL that will come up and show in the address bar. If you get into ODP that is what they'll list - the actual URL of the site - and that's the URL that link will count for search engines & PR - or any other links pointing to that URL (at your ISP).

If people link to the domain name and it's a 302 redirect there's some confusion with the Google backlinks and PR it's better to avoid.

There's another way to point it, and that's to have it pulled up inside a frameset - GoDaddy has that available. Then it's the domain name that will show in the browser address bar, but if you want to optimize the site for search engine placement it'll take special handling.

Different registrars handle it differently, so you'll have to ask.