[Web4lib] Re: Newbie question -- URL Redirection

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I know I'm beating a dead horse and I'll drop the topic after this. Yes, pbwiki is good and I like and use it myself for several different sites and projects, but it appears that their "custom domains" are just a step up from URL redirection: 
 

You must own the domain of the website your trying to set the custom domain for. 
You must have the ability to set up a subdomain on your domain.  Depending on your domain package from your registrar, you may be limited or not have the ability to set a subdomain. 
You must have access to the advanced DNS settings of your domain, and have administrative rights on your wiki (If you're the wiki owner, you automatically have administrator rights). 
 
(Taken from: http://pbwikimanual.pbwiki.com/Custom-Domains )
 
So, pbwiki isn't actually handling domain name registry or anything like that - you'd still have to register and host the domain somewhere else, and then set up your own subdomain which points to your pbwiki site. Then, this portion of your site will be something like http://wiki.mydomainname.com which would be the same as going to http://mydomainname.pbwiki.com. That's just smoke and mirrors as far as I can tell. 
 
It would be a great advantage to small organizations trying to host their entire site as a wiki for pbwiki (or another wiki company) to allow full-service hosting, so that without using any other domain registration or hosting service, you could have  http://www.mydomainname.com go directly to the wiki. It is quite possible that there are other wiki companies that do this, but I haven't run across it yet. 
 
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:25:23 -0800
From: "Cary Gordon" <listuser at chillco.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Re: Newbie question -- URL Redirection
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PBWiki <http://pbwiki.com> offers custom domain names and is a
generally great product. FWIW, my friend David Weekly founded and (I
think) owns it.
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