Hi, my name is Daniel Walter Scott,  and in this video we're gonna look at how  to forward a domain. Now in this case we've got two domain names. We've got our, uh, green gardener.co uk  and green gardener supplies.com. What I'd like to do is grab the.com version  and forward it to the.co.uk. This just means if somebody goes to the.com URL,  it's gonna redirect them to that  original home base website of.co.uk. This redirection service is available on all hosts,  so you then might need to find it within your host,  but with GoDaddy it's quite easy.

We're gonna, we've logged into our account,  we're gonna click on Manage. Now in our domain listings here we've got  our green gardener supplies. I'm gonna use this little dropdown  and I'm gonna have this one that says Forward domain. Now get a few options. Okay, I am going  to click on add forwarding. Okay, so where is this.com gonna go?

It's gonna go to Green  Gardener Dot code at uk. So when somebody goes to my green gardening supplies.com,  it's gonna redirect them to this website. Now you've got the option of what redirection type. There's permanent and temporary,  and most of the time it's this 3 0 1 permanent. That means that tells things like search engines  and Google that this thing here always green gardeners  supplies.com always is gonna redirect to this um,  dot co uk address. And this temporary one here would be used if say you have  some site maintenance or it's gonna redirect just  for a little while and then you're gonna move it back.

This tells Google to that this is just a temporary change  and it's gonna change back in the future. Now where it says forward settings,  you've got two options forward only  and forward with the masking. Forward only is going to be, let me give you an example. So my website, my bring your own laptop do com au. If I enter that, that has got a forward  'cause you can see watch the domain name change, it changes  to the smaller.co, uh, sorry. Um, the smaller BYO l.com au.

Now back here, that is a forward only,  so it completely changes the domain name  to the destination URL. Now this one here, forward Masking. What would happen in this case is that if you went  to this longer name, okay, bring your alert.com uh.com au. When I click on this, it would retain this URL,  but would show you this website here. Okay, now I don't have this set up for this one. I've got a full redirect.

So masking hides where you're actually at, okay. And keeps that original domain name around. Now there's uh, pros and cons for both of those. I prefer the full forward. Okay, the masking, you might have a  reason to keep that masking on. So we're gonna do forward only in this case.

Now make sure update name servers is ticked on  and now you click add. I don't really want to do my forwarding. I guess I'm showing you as an example,  so I'm gonna hit cancel on this case,  but that's how you forward one domain name to another. One last note is  that a domain name redirection can take a little bit of time  for it to actually implement. So if you click on it now, you might have to wait up to, um,  from anywhere from a couple of minutes up until a full day  before you go and hassle GoDaddy  and say, it's not redirecting, why isn't it happening? Give a little bit of time just to make sure  that it's got time to be processed and go through.