Domain forwarding or web forwarding
If you would like to see a tutorial on domain forwarding, see domain forwarding video but we encourage you to read the following page below for more detailed instructions.
Prior to activating domain forwarding, you will need to do the following;
- Transfer an existing domain or buy a new domain. There is no charge to transfer a domain name to us. If your domain, is a TLD domain name like .com, .net, etc, then an additional year of registration will be required on transfer. Standard renewal prices apply.
- After your registration or transfer has been completed, you can login to your domain name administration and order domain forwarding. This is a free product that comes with all domain name registrations and domain transfers. To do this, login to your domain name administration. There will be a link called "Add Services". See diagram below.
Click on the link and the following screen will appear. Select 'URL Forwarding/DNS Hosting' and scroll down to the button that says 'Order Hosting Product'.
If requiring domain forwarding, do NOT select the 'choose only DNS'. Simply click on 'Order URL forwarding/DNS Hosting' and you will get to yet another screen, click 'complete order' and your hosting product is ordered. You will receive an email when your domain name forwarding service has been set up (usually within half an hour) but allow up to 24 hours.
After Domain Name Forwarding has been enabled on your account, you will receive an email to let you know. You can then,
- Login to your domain name account with your username and password
- Click on "manage domains" and select "edit" in the domain name field that you wish to edit.
- Click on "Hosting Control Panel" (link is near right hand corner)
4. Select "Home" (top left hand corner)
Under "Hosting" select "setup" (this icon looks like a house in front of the globe). On the next screen select 'standard forwarding'(recommended) or 'frame forwarding'. On the next screen (see below), enter the URL where you wish your domain to be forwarded to.
You would choose "frame forwarding", if you do not want your domain name to change URL. We recommend that you choose standard forwarding because framed forwarding will not allow your site to be crawled by search engine robots and hence your site will not be indexed in search engine databases.
Finally, if you have transferred your domain name in and not registered your domain name through us, you will need to navigate back to the 'name server' page. The easiest way to find this page, is to go to http://domains.passioncomputing.com.au/ , click on 'Manage Domains' and then click the 'Edit' link next to your domain name.
Changing your name server records
Change your name server records to (below) or click on the "Hosting" button and it will automatically populate the correct name server details for you, then you need to click "update name servers" for the records to be updated. The only likely error you will get entering these details, is if you cut and paste in a space after the host names.
| | Host Name | ip adreess |
| primary name server | brigh.twoplums.com.au | 202.47.4.136 |
| secondary name server | mutley.twoplums.com.au | 72.3.132.132 |
It will then take 24-48 hours to propogate these changes across the internet network but often much sooner.
We advise that if you want to see your domain name resolving to your website files sooner, do not be tempted to visit your domain name because your ISP will hold the old address (pre changes you have just made) in its cache. If you are concerned that you have not filled in the fields properly, log back in and navigate to these pages and check that all the information has been entered in correctly. Usually, if you return in a few hours and enter your domain name into the address bar of your browser, you will see the changes that you have made working
Problems
If you have any problems, please contact sales@passioncomputing.com.au from your registrant email address, and send the name of your domain, the destination url and whether you want standard forwarding or framed forwarding. If you do not indicate the type of domain forwarding we will choose standard forwarding.
Note:
Domain name forwarding does not come with email forwarding. If you wish to use the email addresses associated with your domain name, then we recommend that you buy email hosting with domain forwarding. Click here for email hosting prices.