Creating a personal website excited me much. I wanted to just put my full name... you know... something like my passport name? Then it dawned on me that if anyone knew I had a domain name but not know what it was, they would never search my passport name. I knew I had to do something...

1. Domain Redirection:
A Tutorial

2. Have you ever tried
checking
out a
website,
and

3. turned
weary…
exhausted
of waiting
for it to
load…
If it loads
at all?

4. You
would
not want
that for
your site,
yes?

5. I have prepared
this tutorial so
you can create
a shorter
website address
that points to
your other site
with a long
URL.

6. But before I start
with this tutorial, I
would like to answer
a few questions:

9. We just know of only
one smart enough
to help us,
yes?

10. Now, isn’t she sweet?

11. Just type: domain redirection
Domain redirection

12. And find a wealth of
information…

13. One after another….

14. And to answer the two
questions we posed earlier,
Here is what WIKI says:

15. URL redirection,
also called URL forwarding,
is a World Wide Web technique
for making a webpage
available under more than
one URL address.

16. When a web browser
attempts to open a URL that
has been redirected,
a page with a different URL is
opened.

17. Similarly, domain redirection
or domain forwarding is when
all pages in a URL domain are
redirected to a different domain.

18. 1. for URL shortening;
2. to prevent broken links when
web pages are moved;
3. to allow multiple domain
names belonging to the same
owner to refer to a single
website;
4. to guide navigation into and
out of a website;
5. for privacy protection;
6. and for less innocuous
purposes such as
phishing attacks.
URL redirection is done
for various reasons:

19. For this domain redirection
tutorial, our purpose is No. 1
from the above list:
URL shortening.

20. Now to start with creating a new domain,
we open our browser.

21. https://my.hostmonster.com
Type https://my.hostmonster.com

22. Remember that we will be
redirecting another
domain to an existing one.

23. So, we should
already have
an existing domain.

24. My hosted site is my full name:
mariaelenamongaya-solon.com

25. Be ready with your
registered
username
and password.

26. Type your domain.

27. Type your password.

28. Click

29. The Welcome page!

30. Click

31. Your hostmonster portal.

32. Click

33. You can search for your new domain here.

34. Most know me as
Elena Solon, so if anyone knew I had a
domain name but not what it was, guess what
they would type.
And as experts of Quora succinctly point out….
”Thus, having your domain as full name will
get you on top search results (and not all people
with the same full name will have a website so
chances are quite good yours will be on top).”

35. Type your
desired new
domain.
elenasolon.com

36. Click
elenasolon.com

37. elenasolon.com
Availabledomains
youcanusefor
elenasolon.xxx

38. elenasolon.com
“As regarding
.COM, it is always
the best option,
if it's not taken. ”
Quora Expert

39. Click

40. We are about to pay for the domain.

41. Click

42. Need to check some requirements on this page.

43. Double check details.

44. Automatic renewal is
very important.

45. This is an add on
cost.

46. Need to learn more.

47. Click

49. Scrolling down the page, it
appears that this option is not
that important at this stage.

50. You can choose to
uncheck this option.

51. Click to uncheck.

52. Click to agree to
Terms and Conditions.

53. Click to complete purchase.

54. Fill out Credit Card details.

55. Click to finalize payment.

56. Addyour Credit Card Verification Number.

57. Page 31
Click

58. CONGRATULATIONS!
Website is now yours.

59. Click

60. Newly registered
domain is here!

61. But noticethat this
domainis still
unassigned!

63. Solution:
Assign
domain.
this new

64. We openour Cpanel again and check.

66. Click

67. Click

68. 2 accounts in your CPanel.

69. Click

70. Select this.

71. Click

73. Your new domain here.

75. Click

76. You have successfully
assigned your new domain.
Sweet…

77. So what have
we done
so far?

78. We have
Created a new domain…
shorter than our current
URL.
We have assigned this
new domain to our
existing one.

79. So now,
we shall learn
to redirect this
new site to our
current domain.

80. We go back to our CPanel

81. Click

82. You are directed to this page after that Click.

83. Click

84. Click

85. This page opens after that click.

86. Click the newly created domain.

87. After the Click, the page opens
to this clause.

88. As you hover around this
area, your first domain
comes up.

90. Click

91. Congratulations!

92. So, we now check if our
redirect was successful.

93. Who else can we turn to?

94. Type the newly
created domain.

95. Redirection is successful.

96. Wow! That’s it.
The tutorial
on Domain
Redirection.

97. Hope this was of help.
Hope I was
able to help.

98. And if there is anything that
you may want clarified on.

99. elenasolon@gmail.com

100. Acknowledgement:
All images used in this tutorial
are taken from
www.freepik.com
I thank you!