123 Domain Names UK - Email and Web Forwarding

Email forwarding is a very useful feature which allows you to have unlimited email aliases at your domain. For example sales@yourname.co.uk, info@yourname.co.uk etc. All mail received at these addresses will be automatically redirected to the destination email account you select e.g. duncanjennings234@gmail.com control panel.

How Much Does Email Forwarding Cost?

Email forwarding is included free of charge with all new domain name registrations, transfers in, email packages and hosting accounts.

What are the Advantages of Email Forwarding?

  • Provides professional looking email addresses at no extra cost.
  • Minimal set-up.
  • Once you have selected which aliases should redirect mail where you simply continue to send and receive email in the same way that you always have done.

What are the Disadvantages of Email Forwarding?

  • Not an actual real email account therefore you must continue using your existing email service. For a real POP3 email on your domain you should check out our POP3 email packages
  • Difficult to send mail out as "you@yourdomain.co.uk".
  • No anti-virus or anti spam protection.
  • No Webmail service.

Web Forwarding

Web forwarding, otherwise known as URL redirection is also included free of charge with all new domain name registrations and transfer in's. Web forwarding allows you to redirect users that access your domain name to any other web site URL. If you already have your own web space such as that provided by many ISP's, this feature will forward any visitors to it when they type in yourname.co.uk.

Example: http://www.yourdomain.co.uk forwards to: http://freespace.geocities.com/yourname43rr/index.html

When setting up your web forwarding you can decide whether you wish to keep your domain name in the browser address bar. This is known as URL masking and works by using an HTML frameset. As part of this feature you can specify a page title and meta description and key word tags for search engine purposes. Alternatively you can opt for a straight "refresh" whereby the forwarding address would appear in the browser address bar.

Important: Web forwarding should not been as a substitute for web hosting. There are many advantages to hosting your web site professionally on your domain name rather than on free space. Firstly search engines such as Google will not index domain properly if all it is is a redirect. You need to upload all your content to your domain name to ensure it is indexed correctly.