Pointing domain to new IP address

not sure if this the the right forum for this question

[Abe]

I have a client who is closing her business. She has substantial traffic and we are selling her traffic to a competiter. We intended to accomplish this with a redirect, knowing that eventually the search engine rankings would phase out but traffic from the directory listings would still occur.

Now the buyer wants to know if it's possible to assign the IP address of their current site to the domain that's being sold so that when the spiders visit, they will index their (buyer's pages). I have no idea if this is possible.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance.

[sugarkane]

> possible to assign the IP address of their current site to the domain

You could do it the other way around - transfer the domain ownership to the buyers and have their hosts point it at their current site, but you'd be running into duplicate content issues (2 domains pointing at the same site).

You plan of redirects sounds a better bet, although you might consider using the original domain as a seperate doorway site feeding traffic to the new one.