Help help! Domain Name

Hi Guys
I'm soooo new to this. But I have this pressing question. If I subscribe to .mac for my family, will my kids be able to use their own domain names (which we just purchased for them) for their .mac page? We don't have a hosting service for the domain names yet, but I was thinking .mac might be good. Thoughts on this?
Thank you soo much!

If I subscribe to .mac for my family, will
my kids be able to use their own domain names (which
we just purchased for them) for their .mac page?
Yes, you go to the place where you bought your domain names and have them forwarded to your .mac url, or to the url of what ever place you decide to host your site.

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First let me get this out in the open: I'm not computer savvy and I'll probably end up using fancy technical computing terms inappropriately. For this, I apologize.
Okay, I have a relatively simple goal (at least I hope it's simple).
All I want is for the little website I created in iWeb and have hosted on .Mac (perhaps "hosted" is the wrong word?) to display the domain name I've given it.
Some potentially helpful info:
My website is called: thegirlandrhino.com
I purchase my domain name at Namecheap.com
At Namecheap.com I utilized the URL forwarding feature -- forwarding http://web.mac.com/thegirlandrhino to http://thegirlandrhino.com
Now then, all of this is works just fine.
However, when I type "www.thegirlandrhino.com" into my address bar, the name changes into: http://web.mac.com/thegirlandrhino/iWeb/TheGirlandRhino/181C45AC-5290-11DB-9315- 001124783C74.html
I find this obnoxious and unsightly.
Does anyone know I can get my site's URL to maintain its "form?"
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Hey, good job on getting your domain forwarding setup! The feature that you are now looking for is called "Masking". It will let your domain name stay in the address bar no matter what page on your site you surf to, so that all that gibberish URL stays hidden away.
I just took a look at namecheap.com and see that they are calling this feature "cloaking". Just enable this feature from your domain name account and hide away your long .Mac URL...
http://www.namecheap.com/learn/domain-registration/domain-features.asp

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* Or open the Help menu and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
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Close and restart Firefox after each change via "Firefox > Exit" (Windows: Firefox/File > Exit; Mac: "Firefox > Quit Firefox"; Linux: "Firefox/File > Quit")
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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everytime I try to access the domain name I get a
.mac screen that says my .mac iweb site does not
exist.
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1) You don't incur the 'penalty' of having your users having to go via your hosting companies servers for each request (they communicate directly with your server instead).
2) You will incur less 'pain', web-forwarding can cause quite a few issues depending on your exact requirements (they might not affect you today or tomorrow, but someday down the line you might get bitten by them).
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When I connect to my office VPN and try to ssh to one the machine I always have to put domain name, for example:
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My mail client has also stopped working from home saying same thing: host cannot be resolved .
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Last edited by progandy (2013-11-30 14:28:54)

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You would need to login to your web mail account to reply so that the email came from "[email protected]"
I try to get a gmail address that is close to the domain name like - [email protected] - so that I don't have to bother opening web mail as it is a pain.
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