Question about domain name and .mac

my wife and i are going to move to London and we want a website to update people. now it would be a lot easier to say, "oh, just go to www.domainx.com". (with domainx being whatever domain we buy) rather than saying, "oh go to mac.homepage.iweb.ilife.joseph.page1.com" or whatever massive name they choose. now i would like to publish to .mac because of what they allow you to do. is there anyway i could buy domainx.com and when they go to domainx.com it will send them to my .mac published site. i hope you understand the question. i don't want to be limited by domainx.com but i want the luxury of that short domain name. any help would be amazing. thanks so much!
~joseph

1. Search this forum. It's discussed every minute. The topic is also above yours. Please have a look.
[Publishing to .mac - how many domains can i have?|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1487530&tstart=0]
2. iWeb publishes to web.mac.com/yourdotMacId.
So there really is not much to remember.
3. Go to the dotMac Help. It's explained there.
1. [Setting up .Mac to use a personal domain name|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen367.html]
You can set up your .Mac account to use a personal domain name by registering the...
2. [About .Mac and personal domain names|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen366.html]
Learn how you can use your own personal domain name for your iWeb '08 websites....
3. [If you're having trouble setting up your personal domain name on .Mac|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen369.html]
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