Personal domain setup help

I need a little bit of help, or at the very least clarification.
I setup my personal domain within mobileme and my registrar (godaddy). when I go to my site www.domain.com it works, I see my mobileme website. When I type domain.com without the www, it brings me to a parked godaddy page. Is there any way to add a Cname to direct the base name w/o www it to web.mac.com like the www.domain.com?

What did you use as the URL to forward to? Here's how I set up GoDaddy for one of my sites with forwarding and masking:
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You have two ways to use a personal domain name with .Mac:
a) The one which has already been available for years, namely using domain forwarding and masking. I guess that is what you are doing now
b) The new one which has you make a CNAME entry. This has a number of advantages over a), including a url in the browser address bar of the form http://www.mydomain.com/sitename/pagename.html, no forwarding/masking involved.
If the place you have your domain does not let you do b), then you are stuck with a) or you need to change the place where your name is located.
If you want something else, best host your site on a different server, as least for the next couple years.

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If you upgrade to iWeb 2 in iLife '08 you can use the Personal Domain feature; click here:
See also this ongoing discussion thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1487530&tstart=0

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I have three websites I have made using iWeb, and one personal domain. I would like to host two of the sites only on .Mac, and host the third site on the personal domain. I set up the CNAME and it works but I do not want two of the sites to be linked to the personal domain.
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When I go to mysite.com, the iWeb page I want shows up, and I can go through the pages of the site. But if I type in mysite.com/site2.html or mysite.com/site3.html my other sites come up. I don't want those two sites to be accessible from mysite.com.
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Hi - has anyone performed this with GoDaddy? I don't see where on GoDaddy you actually insert your .mac info as a CName. Is this different than forwarding? Thanks. Also, can you do this for multiple personal domain names?
Steve

This is a helpful thread. I'm just dangerous enough to stumble my way through doing this, but I'm stumped right now with something unclear on GoDaddy's site:
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HELP! Can I view a site I created with iWeb using a personal domain?

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