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When you set up a web hosting account, it is set up for one domain name. You can purchase a second domain name and point it to the IP address for the first domain name. (Pointing directly to the IP address of my first website has worked for me, but I dont know if it always works. Some web hosts allow you to register a second domain name for an account, and then you just point to their DNS.

A Domain aliasing allows you to host a Web site on one domain and point other domain names to the site. It allows additional domain names to all lead to the exact same locations on your original website. For example, if you are hosting your domain name "original.com" with us and added a Domain Alias for "alias.com", then http://www.original.com and http://www.alias.com would take a visitor to the exact same pages of your original.com website. http://original.com/somefile.html would bring someone to the exact same page as http://alias.com/somefile.html. With a Domain Alias, the URL in the address bar of the users browser stays exactly as they typed it.

All email sent to anything @alias.com will be delivered to [email protected]. In other words, all mail for alias.com is treated as if it was actually addressed to original.com. This lets you manage email for both domains at once in your Control Panel. This means you cannot have mail addressed to [email protected] be delivered differently than mail addressed to [email protected].

Domain Aliases have all the properties of a regular domain hosting account in terms of DNS and mail. The only difference is that the Domain Alias has no files (web pages) of its own. Instead it uses the files of the aliased domain name.

Furthermore, to do the domain aliasing the nameservers of the aliasing domain must be pointing to the original domain name. Changes to listed nameservers on domain registrations may take up to 24 hours to take effect.

Moreover, instead of domain aliasing you may have another option to forward your domain which is know as the URL forwarding. URL forwarding is when you type in a domain name and it is redirected to another domain name.