What is domain Aliasing?

[Nici]

Hello Peter,

Supposing I have a domain name hosted and registered as

abc.com. Now, I want people to be able to send email to

abc@abc.com and abc@xyz.com but I don't want to have to setup

and check 2 different email accounts and even when the site

xyz.com is accessed they are automatically redirected to

abc.com.


Here's where Domain Aliasing comes into play:


To describe this, it's best to acknowledge the difference

between email users and email addresses. Email users are the

user accounts you login with (when using webmail or a mail

client). These users have usernames, passwords, etc. But most

importantly email users also have addresses. Email addresses

are the actual addresses that people send email to in their

email clients (in the TO: field). A Domain Alias enables all

users in a domain (abc.com) to have another address for the

aliased domain. For example, if I had a domain alias [xyz.com]

setup for [abc.com], I can login with abc@abc.com (my user)

and I can receive mails at both the address abc@abc.com and

abc@xyz.com. When any of the visitors try to access xyz.com or

abc.com, he will get the same site. For domain aliasing domain

xyz.com to abc.com, the only requirement is I need to register

the domain name xyz.com and set the nameservers of the domain

pointing to the server of the abc.com.

I hope I am clear enough.

Thanks,

Nici

[Nici]

Hello Peter,

Supposing I have a domain name hosted and registered as

abc.com. Now, I want people to be able to send email to

abc@abc.com and abc@xyz.com but I don't want to have to setup

and check 2 different email accounts and even when the site

xyz.com is accessed they are automatically redirected to

abc.com.

Here's where Domain Aliasing comes into play:

To describe this, it's best to acknowledge the difference

between email users and email addresses. Email users are the

user accounts you login with (when using webmail or a mail

client). These users have usernames, passwords, etc. But most

importantly email users also have addresses. Email addresses

are the actual addresses that people send email to in their

email clients (in the TO: field). A Domain Alias enables all

users in a domain (abc.com) to have another address for the

aliased domain. For example, if I had a domain alias [xyz.com]

setup for [abc.com], I can login with abc@abc.com (my user)

and I can receive mails at both the address abc@abc.com and

abc@xyz.com. When any of the visitors try to access xyz.com or

abc.com, he will get the same site. For domain aliasing domain

xyz.com to abc.com, the only requirement is I need to register

the domain name xyz.com and set the nameservers of the domain

pointing to the server of the abc.com.

I hope I am clear enough.