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[jthom263]

I have A Co.cc Account And I An Planning On Making A Website "computergeekzone.co.cc" and I Have Already Made The Forum For It .... I Dunno Whether I should Say The Url Here Coz I Might Get Kicked Off For Spam .... But I Want It To Be "forums.computergeekzone.co.cc" but co.cc will not let me have two names so is there anyway i can set it up so "computergeekzone.co.cc" Is The Sub-Domain So I Can Add Anything Before It????

Any Help Would Be Dearly Appreciated
Thanks. Jack :):lol:

[cakka]

you just get free .co.cc domain for first year, second year you must pay
how many the price it depend on your website...
more valuable, more expensive...

i just suggest you to not using .co.cc
use .com or other
good luck :)

[roxin_phoenix]

I'm have using co.cc for 3 years and still free, but it better if you use .com or other domain. More cool I think. :p
To make a subdomains, you can do it from your hosting panel. Usually, there is an option to do this.

[FrankSinatra]

Since I have the same question and this thread was already on the first page, I figured I would just post in here. Allow me to provide a more detailed example so maybe you can offer guidance...

I use co.cc and I also have a domain at GoDaddy. Both services allow you to add custom records such as A, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT. My GoDaddy domain has a ton of subdomains (mail.me.com, forum.me.com, blog.me.com). GoDaddy has a wizard where you enter your subdomain (blog.me.com), then enter the actual domain (me.blogspot.com), and then GoDaddy automatically creates an A record which reads BLOG.ME.COM A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where those x's are an IP address. If you don't use the wizard, you are supposed to be able to use CNAME records to set up subdomains.

As co.cc allows me to add whatever records I desire, I should be able to manually add any records I need to in order to get my subdomains redirecting to my blog, forum, etc. Co.cc's support is not very helpful in explaining what needs to be done. Is anyone here familiar with setting up records to redirect? As CNAME records are essentially aliases, could I not set up a record like BLOG.ME.CO.CC CNAME ME.BLOGSPOT.COM? I tried that but it isn't working. Do I also need to set up a A record with an IP address along with the CNAME?

Any relevant guidance would be greatly appreciated. Please do not make comments suggesting I use something other than co.cc because I also have a domain at GoDaddy and this question could just as easily apply to that service.

[FrankSinatra]

After wrestling with the support teams of my registrars, my web site hosting company, and my web site hosting company's server farm company...I finally got an answer!

With big organizations like CNN, Facebook, Google, etc. you can use CNAME because the target is on a dedicated IP. Many smaller organizations get cheaper hosting where a server farm will lease space on a single server to various groups. Although these sites each have individual domain names, the server they are hosted from has one single IP address. In many cases this means CNAME forwarding will be blocked.

There are two ways to bypass this.

1. GoDaddy allows you to have a *.html file which loads the target domain in a frame. Viewers won't be able to tell the difference unless they view the page source, as the URL will be your domain and parameters passed in at the end will still function as if your domain was the actual domain linked to the server where the content is hosted. Basically instead of a <body/> tag you just use this:

<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.targetsite.com" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

2. A more common solution is to use Apache's URL rewriting inside the .htaccess file in your directory at whatever subdomain you want to forward. I have no experience with this, and as such I cannot provide a specific example but if you Google "apache url rewriting" you will find many very confusing articles which are meant to help you. :)