Personal domain; search engine behavior?

I have a personal domain pointing to dotmac. This is a commercial site so it is critical that search engines correctly direct users to the site without confusion.
I am assuming I should turn on Frames or Masking? It sounds like this will result in "mypersonaldomain.com" always showing in the addressd bar?
Given time, will a search engine index the dotmac web location rather than the more easily identified personal domain name? Is there a way to ensure search engines capture the personal domain?
I would hate to have to ftp the web files to the actual domain after each update...
THANKS

Or use cfx_NSLookup at
http://www.intrafoundation.com/products.php?id=62
which though a bit old (1999) still works with CF 7 and it's free.
cfx_NSLookup will work with both TCP/IP as well as name.
cfx_NSLookup would also check your intranet and might provide a
false positive in regards to registered domain names.
If the domain doesn't exist, an empty string is returned,
with the option of accessing additional error information.

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I think that your both confusing "domain names" and
"domain/web space
hosting" here.
Typically you register with a hosting company and receive an
amount of disk
space. bandwith etc and a domain name, say
www.thru-the-net.com
You create your web site and upload it to the serve and
people can access
your web site at www.thru-the-net.com
Now you realise that many people outside the US are entering
www.through-the-net.com so you get your provider to register
www.through-the-net.com for you as well and they POINT this
address to
www.thru-the-net.com. That is to say when people enter
www.through-net.com
the actually end up at www.thru-the net.com i.e. the same
place.
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www.thru-the-net.com
www.through-the-net.com
www.thruthenet.com
www.throughthenet.com
www.thru-the-net.net
www.through-the-net.net
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variants and
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domains are
not being forwarded. They are entirely stand alone domains
that are all the
same.
Search engines DON'T like these and see them as an attempt at
improving
ranking and therefore penalise all of them.
Sorry for being so long winded, but hopefully this makes
sense.
Regards
Phill

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Rohit Nair

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*Do NOT remove "personal data" when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because this will remove all profile folders and you lose personal data like bookmarks and passwords including data in profiles created by other Firefox versions.
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*(32 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\"
*(64 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\"
*It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
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If you keep having problems then also create a new profile.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

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