Post in Custom Domain Now Available on Free Sites

Jul 04 02:28 UTC

I am pleased to let you know that you can now have a custom domain on a free
online groups site. This enables you to customise a free site to better reflect
your organisation.

When you start a site with OnlineGroups.Net, it uses a subdomain of
onlinegroups.net. As an example, our demo site uses the subdomain
'demosite.onlinegroups.net'.
  http://demosite.onlinegroups.net/

We deliberately chose our domain so that you it would make sense with your
brand. For example, if your subdomain is 'citydanceclub.onlinegroups', this
looks like the online groups for the City Dance Club.

You may however want your site to look even more strongly associated with your
organisation. If you have your own domain, you can have your online groups site
on that domain, for free.

Continuing my fictitious example, if you owned the domain 'citydanceclub.net',
you could have your online groups site at the domain http://citydanceclub.net
and with email addresses ending in '@citydanceclub.net'.

If you already have a website at your domain, you can put your online groups
site at a subdomain of your domain, such as 'http://groups.citydanceclub.net',
with group  addresses ending in '@citydanceclub.net'.

Here is a real example of an online groups site with a custom domain. The folks
at PeopleAggregator
  http://www.peopleaggregator.net
use an online groups site to provide forums for users and  developers of their
software. Because they want their online groups site to reflect their own
brand, they have put the site at a subdomain of their domain.
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/
This way, their online groups are at these addresses.
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/groups/pa-users
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/groups/pa-dev

The groups on the site use the custom domain, too. The email addresses of the
two PeopleAggregator online groups are as follows.
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If you would like a custom domain on your online groups site, please use the
following instructions for setting up a custom domain.
  http://onlinegroups.net/sites/features/index.html#custom_domain