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30 Aug 10 URL Masking

What is URL Masking? 

If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination URL. For example, your website is hosted at www.tripod.com/12345/YourSite/index.html/a/index.html and you choose to forward http://www.domainname.com to this website. If you enable URL Masking, your visitors will never see www.tripod.com/12345/YourSite/index.html as a URL in their browser address bar.

How does URL Masking work?

In case of URL Masking, the Domain Forwarding server sends the client a Frames page where the Frame Source contains the destination URL you have specified. This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change though the client sees the destination page.

Enabling / Disabling URL Masking

You can enable / disable URL Masking after you have bought Domain Forwarding for a particular Domain Name. You need to follow the steps mentioned below to activate the same - 

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name. Click here to know how >>

2. Click on the Domain name in the search results to get to the Order details view.

3. Now click on Manage Service in the Domain Forwarding Toolbar.

4. Select the check box adjacent to Enable URL Masking for enabling this feature and deselect it for disabling this feature.

Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a page title and META Tags for the Frames page which is sent to the Client. This can be done by simply putting in your Meta Tags and <TITLE> Tags in the Header Tags box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between <HEAD> </HEAD> Tags on the Frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the following format only:

Meta Tags

<META NAME=”keywords” CONTENT=”Your comma-separated keywords are entered here”>
<META NAME=”description” CONTENT=”Website description of the forwarded domain name can be mentioned here”>

Page Title

<TITLE>Your Webpage Title can be mentioned here</TITLE>

Note: Do not mention any text outside the above mentioned Tags or it will disrupt the domain forwarding service for your domain name.

NOFRAMES Page Content

When URL Masking is enabled, the page served to the client is a Frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a Frames based page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a Frames based website. You may want to set an alternative <NOFRAMES> page content, which would be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your <NOFRAMES> page HTML content in the No Frames Page Content box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES> Tags on the Frames page sent to the visitor. You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display <NOFRAMES> page content.

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27 Aug 10 Sub-Domain Forwarding

How does Gossimer, LLC Sub-Domain Forwarding work?

Using the Sub-domain forwarding service, you can forward any visitor from http://subdomain.your-domain-name.com/ to http://destination-domain-name.com/subdomain/. The Sub-Domain Forwarding service can also be used in conjunction with URL Masking and Path Forwarding services.

For example, if Sub-Domain Forwarding is enabled, then:

  1. http://payments.your-domain-name.com will get successfully forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/
     

  2. http://credit-card.payments.your-domain-name.com will get forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/credit-card/
     

Enabling / Disabling Sub Domain Forwarding

You can enable / disable Sub-Domain Forwarding after you have bought Domain Forwarding for a particular Domain Name. You need to follow the steps mentioned below to activate the same:

  1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name.
     

  2. Click on the Domain name in the search results to get to the Order Details view.
     

  3. Upon clicking on Manage Service, selecting the check box enables Sub-Domain Forwarding, while deselecting the same disables this feature.

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25 Aug 10 Suspend / Unsuspend a Domain Forwarding Service

Order Suspension is a useful feature available to Resellers of Gossimer. In this status, the Order remains in the database but is inactive and the functionality associated with it cannot be used. No one can make ANY modifications to this Service unless it is unsuspended.

Follow the steps below to Suspend / Unsuspend Domain Forwarding Service - 

1. Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.

2. Go to Products -> Search -> Domain Forwarding Search and perform a search for the Domain for which you wish to Suspend Email Forwarding.

3. In the Search Results, click on Domain Forwarding for the Domain.

4. The next page is the Order Details view, where you would find the Suspend / Unsuspend Button.

  • If you wish to Suspend the Service, you would have to select the Check Box for Suspension and enter the reason for Suspension and click on Update.
  • to Unsuspend, unselect the Check Box and Update the same.

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23 Aug 10 Setting the Destination URL for the Domain Name

Once you have bought the Domain Forwarding Service for a particular Domain Name, you will have to specify the Destination URL i.e. the URL to which the Domain Name is to be forwarded. This can be achieved by following the steps mentioned below - 

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased the Domain forwarding service.

2. Click on the Domain name in the search results to get to the Order details view.

 

3. Click on Manage Service and enter the destination URL in the text box provided. Here you can enter destination URL in any of the form like domain.com, www.domain.com, www.domain.com/index.html or subdomain.domain.com etc.

Domain Forwarding by Gossimer also includes other features like URL Masking, Path Forwarding, Sub-Domain Forwarding, Setting the tag Content and Setting the page Content.

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23 Aug 10 Listing and Searching Orders

 

 

In order to manage your domain forwarding orders, you need to search for them from your Control Panel with Gossimer, and access their Order Details view. To do so, follow the simple steps mentioned below –

1. Login to your Control Panel

Resellers do so from http://manage.gossimer.biz/customer.

2. Once logged in to your Control Panel,

Resellers, go to Products -> Search -> Domain Forwarding Search
Customers, go to Domains -> Search -> Domain Forwarding Search

and you can search for the Domain Name which you are looking for (To list all Domain Names you have registered, leave all search parameters blank).

3. In the next page you would see a list of all Domain Names, with Domain Forwarding Service bought through Gossimer.

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22 Aug 10 Renewal Reminders

Gossimer sends mails to its Customers informing them about all Domain Forwarding Service Orders that are nearing their expiration date.

Customers of Gossimer:

Customers are sent Expiring Domain Forwarding Service Orders Renewal Instruction e-mails before they actually expire, after expiry, and on deletion of the package.

The Reminders are sent to the Customer Username from 45 days prior to the Domain Forwarding Service Order‘s expiry, on the 1st, 11th and 21st day of every month, until it is either Renewed or Deleted (due to non-Renewal).

This Report displays the Order ID, Domain Name, Product Category, Expiry Date, Days to Expiry and Days to Deletion, besides detailed information about how to go about renewing these orders.
 

Gossimer Resellers can easily view all Expiring and Expired Domain Names from the Renewal Management Interface and choose to Renew any Domain Forwarding Service Order on behalf of their Customer(s).

 

IMPORTANT

When a Domain Forwarding Service Order Expires,

  • the order is immediately Suspended. This means that you would be unable to use your order, until it is Renewed.
     

  • the Customer is sent an e-mail, informing him that he has 15 days to Renew his Domain Forwarding Service Order, post which the order is Deleted.

When the Domain Forwarding Service Order is Deleted, the Customer is sent one final e-mail informing him/her that the order is Deleted, since it was not Renewed within 15 days after Expiry.

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17 Aug 10 How do I start using my Domain forwarding service?

Once you have started using the Domain forwarding service, you need to take the following steps to start using it:


A. Change the Name servers of your Domain name to our Name servers.

For your Domain forwarding service to work, it is essential that all queries for your domain name should reach our Domain Forwarding server, which would further redirect it to the destination you have specified.

Thus, it is vital that after you have bought the Service for a particular Domain Name, you need to change the Name Servers for this Domain Name to our Name Servers.

Follow the process outlined below to know what Name servers you need to use:

  1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the Domain name for which you have purchased the Domain Forwarding service.
     
  2. In the Order List View that appears, click on that particular Domain Name.
     
  3. In the details view, click on View Name Server Details.
     
  4. Here, you would find the list of Name servers you need to set for your Domain name.

If the Domain name for which you have purchased this service is registered with Gossimer, refer to the article on Modifying Name servers to learn how to go about changing your Name servers.

OR

Create an A record for your Domain name pointing to the IP address of the Domain forwarding server


B
. Add a destination URL for your Domain name. Click here
to find out how.

Once you have done so, your Domain name would start redirecting to its destination URL within 24-72 hours of Name server modification.

In addition to this, you might also want to make some additional settings for your domain name, such as

Enabling Sub-domain forwarding

URL Masking

Adding Meta-tags

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07 Aug 10 Bulk Renewal

Apart from individually renewing a Domain Forwarding Service Order you can have a glimpse of all expiring Domain Forwarding Service Orders, and Renew the same in bulk from the Renewal Management Interface of your Control Panel.

The Renewal Management interface can be used as follows -

For Customers:

1. Login to your Customer Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/customer.

2. Go to Domains -> Domain Forwarding -> Renewal Management

3. Select Domain Forwarding or any other Product whose Orders you wish to renew from the drop down and enter the number of days, to obtain a list of all expiring domain names within this period, and click on Go.

For example, if you want to obtain the list of Domain Forwarding Orders expiring in the next 30 days, select Domain Forwarding from the drop-down and then enter 30 to obtain this list.

4. Select one or more Orders that you wish to Renew. To select all Orders, select the check box on the top of the form.

5. Click on the Renew Selected Orders button, to select the Number of years for which you wish to Renew each Order. 

6. Upon selecting the number of years you want to renew each order for, you would be displayed your Current Debit Account Balance with Gossimer and the Total Amount for renewing the selected orders, at the bottom of the page.

о If you have selected less than 25 orders to be renewed, then upon clicking on the Continue button, you would be prompted to Pay for the Renewal of these orders.

о If you have selected more than 25 orders to be renewed, then

  • if you have sufficient funds in your Current Debit Account Balance, then upon clicking on the Continue button, your Bulk Renewal request will be added to the queue and it will be automatically processed shortly.
     
  • if you do not have sufficient funds in your Current Debit Account Balance, then you would need to first click on the Add Funds link.

    This will  pop-up a new window, where you need to select one of the payment methods and add sufficient funds to cover the cost of renewing these domain names (ie. Total Amount – Current Debit Account Balance).

    Upon completion of the Add Funds process, close this window and refresh the Set Years for Renewal page. Now upon clicking on the Continue button, your Bulk Renewal request will be added to the queue and it will be automatically processed shortly.
     

IMPORTANT

At any point of time, you can only add two Bulk orders. This implies that you would not be able to add another Bulk Registration / Renewal / Modification request, if two Bulk Actions are already running. You will be able to add another Bulk request once the earlier request has been processed completely.

 

For Resellers:

1. Log in to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller

2. Go to Products -> Renewal Management

3. Before clicking on the Go button, select/mention the following details

Product – Select the Product whose Orders you wish to renew from the drop down

Number of Days – Enter the number of days to obtain a list of all Expiring orders of (all) your Customers within this period

Customer (optional) – If you wish to renew only orders belonging to a particular Customer, you may do so by mentioning the Customer Username (email address) or Customer ID (number) in the appropriate field. If you leave this field blank, the search will result in orders belonging to all your Customers.

For example,

Case 1 – if you want to renew Orders belonging to All Products, expiring in the next 30 days, then you would need to select the Product as All Products, mention 30 days and not fill the Customer field.

Case 2 – if you want to renew only Customer Username a@somedomain.com all orders belonging to All Products, expiring in the next 30 days, then you would need to select the Product as All Products, mention 30 days and fill the Customer field with a@somedomain.com.

4. Select one or more Orders that you wish to Renew. To select all Orders, select the check box on the top of the form.

5. Click on Renew Selected Orders, to select the Number of years for which you wish to Renew each Order.

6. Decide how you wish to Pay for the Renewal of the Orders by selecting one of the Payment Options mentioned below and then click on the Continue button to execute the Renewal

  • Option 1 – Renew the Orders and the Invoices will be kept Pending for the Customer. This way, he can pay for the Invoices later. 
  • Option 2 – Renew the domain names using the Current Debit Account Balance of the Customer. This option would immediately debit your Customer’s Debit Account for the Cost of the Renewals. If there are insufficient funds in the Customer’s Debit Account balance, then the system would renew as many Orders as possible. 
  • Option 3 – Renew the Orders without raising any Invoices for the Customer.

IMPORTANT

At any point of time, you can only add two Bulk orders for any Customer. This implies that you would not be able to add another Bulk Registration / Renewal / Modification request for a Customer if two Bulk Actions are already running for this Customer. You will be able to add another Bulk request once the earlier request has been processed completely.

 

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07 Aug 10 No NS A records at Nameservers Failure Message

Once you have setup Domain Forwarding service for your domain name, you need to modify your Name Servers to the specified by Gossimer. Generally your Domain Forwarding service should start working within a span of 24-48 hours.

Do not be confused when you encounter errors such as No NS A records at nameservers while using some DNS Tools like DNSReport.com. This does not indicate an error and will not affect the forwarding of your Domain Name.

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06 Aug 10 Path Forwarding

Path Forwarding is a unique and highly useful feature provided by Gossimer. This feature would be highly useful when you already have a full fledged web-site at a particular Domain Name and want to not only Forward some other Domain Name to it, but also all the paths associated with the web-site. Thus, if you Forward http://www.forwardeddomain.com to http://www.destinationdomain.com and you enable Path Forwarding for it, then http://www.forwardeddomain.com/ would be Forwarded to http://www.destinationdomain.com/index/index.html and so on.

Path Forwarding will also work perfectly with URL Masking. In this case, if you type in http://www.forwardeddomain.com/index/index.html in your Browser, the URL in the Browser would not change but the page displayed will be of http://www.destinationdomain.com/index/index.html.

Path Forwarding is by default enabled and will always work when you Buy Domain Forwarding. You have no need to enable it separately.

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05 Aug 10 Renew / Delete a Domain Forwarding Service Order

You can Renew/Delete your Domain Forwarding Service Order from the Control Panel, by following the steps mentioned below -

1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the Domain name for which you have purchased this service.

2. In the Order List View that appears, click on that particular Domain Name.

To Renew a Domain Forwarding Service:

  • Click on Renew Service which would take you to the Renewal Service Page.

  • On this page from the Dropdown Box select the numbers of years for which you wish to Renew this Service.

  • Then proceed to Pay for this Service and the Renewal would be affected immediately.

To Delete a Domain Forwarding Service:

  • Click on Delete Service which would take you to the Delete Service Page. 

  • Here, you would see details of the refund applicable on deletion, if any. The refund would be given to you in the form of a Credit Note. You would further have to Confirm the Deletion of this service. On confirming the Deletion of this service, changes would be effective immediately.

IMPORTANT

Deletion of this service within 30 days of purchase entitles you to a full refund of your cost price. However, you would not get a refund if you deleted the service after this period.

 

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