Redirecting a web address

Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help me?
I've bought a web address for my family website and want to direct it to my .mac website. When I emailed the address people (sorry, don't know the technical term) re this they replied:
"Thanks for your email. With a domain with DNS order we can only make changes to the DNS. This means that we can only point your website to an IP address of your host. In this case it would be an IP address for web.mac.com. It would then be up to that host to make the appropriate changes to direct
any request for (web address I've bought) to (my web.mac site address) which is generally something a service provider will not do."
Er, I've no idea what I need to do next - I've had a quick look at help but have been unable to find anything (though I will carry on looking). Do I need to email someone at mac to get them to redirect from web.mac.com to my personal site?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thank you
Nikki

Who did you buy your domain name from? This is the first time I've ever heard of one of these companies refusing to point your domain to the specific url.

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