Can .Mac account name (user id?) be obscured in iWeb's URLs?

http://gallery.mac.com/XXXXXXX
http://web.mac.com/XXXXX/Site1/Welcome.html
Is there any way to obscure/hide the user's account name (XXXXXX) in the URLs?
I believe that the iWeb-published pages/sites can in effect be segregated in a manner that would make it hard for someone with one link to see the content on the .Mac subscribers other published iWeb sites. However, given that iWeb's URLs contain the user's account name [http://web.mac.com/XXXXX/Site1/Welcome.html], it is very simple to take the XXXXXX from that, and convert it to http://gallery.mac.com/XXXXXXX to see the subscribers full galleries.
I for one like to keep certain groups of people and certain published photos separate from one another. But, am unsure how to give people iWeb site URLs and NOT have them see my family photos by going to my .Mac/iPhoto Galleries.

Hi Indy,
as far as I know the only way to do what you'd like to do is by setting up a personal domain, setting CNAME on it and then point it to the site you'd like to point people.
By doing this the user's account name would be hidden. And people visiting the site wouldn't know there's another site.
You could also password-protect the family sites but I don't think that's a solution.
Regards,
Cédric

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