Domain forwarding sends anyone who visits one domain straight to another. It's the right tool when you own several names but run one site.
Common uses.
- You own yourbrand.ng and yourbrand.com.ng and want both to land on one site.
- You've rebranded and want the old name to keep working.
- You've registered a common misspelling so those visitors still arrive.
Method 1: redirect in cPanel. If the domain points at our nameservers and is added to your hosting account:
- Log in to cPanel and open Redirects.
- Choose Permanent (301) unless the change is genuinely temporary.
- Select the domain, enter the destination URL, and choose whether to redirect with or without www.
- Click Add.
Method 2: park the domain instead. If you want the same website to appear under both names rather than a redirect, add the second domain as an alias (parked domain) sharing the same document root. See the article on addon domains, subdomains and parked domains.
Method 3: a DNS-level redirect. If the domain isn't attached to a hosting account, we can set a URL forwarding record from your client area under Domains > My Domains > Manage DNS.
301 or 302? Use 301 (permanent) when the move is final , it passes search ranking signals to the destination and browsers cache it. Use 302 (temporary) only for a genuinely temporary campaign, since a cached 301 is hard to undo.
Note on email. Forwarding the website does nothing to email. If you want mail to [email protected] to keep arriving, you need MX records and either mailboxes or forwarders on the old domain as well.
