Subdomain Question

[boxturt]

Ok, please don't stomp on the annoying little boxturtle for asking this. Part of me says "oh yea, you know the answer to this" but in the other hand (paw?foot?)...... maybe not.

 

Let's say I have my domain, which we shall call MyDomainWithAnnoyinglyLongname.com, and somebody other than me registers another domain, say ShortName.com, and points it to me at MyDomainWithAnnoyinglyLongname.com/folder/ ore even to MyDomainWithAnnoyinglyLongname.com/somepage.ext

 

Am I going to wake up one afternoon to find a suspended page for my entire site? Personally it doesn't matter if they do it (point ShortName.com) or not - no one else is claiming the material as their own.

 

I'm thinking this is a no-no but inquiring turtles want to know..........

 

Thanks

[surefire]

I can't answer this question since I'm not working for TCH, but I'm curious... you didn't say why you'd be suspended... bandwidth?

[boxturt]

Hi , it's not a matter of bandwidth but it might be dangerously close to a TOS violation of pointing a domain to somewhere other than the public_html/index.ext

 

I've always found this issue a little confusing and I want to be certain that I don't get suspended for what someone else is doing.

[TCH-Thomas]

It would be a violation of the AUP if the domain points to anything else than the root (in other words, subfolders, a special page etc.)

Both MyDomainWithAnnoyinglyLongname.com and ShortName.com must go to same pages unless you have a reseller account.

[boxturt]

That's what I thought, thanks.

[Deverill]

Of course. TCH is not so hard-hearted as to cut you off forever because of something someone else did. Of course you'd have to work with the helpdesk staff and they'd have to have evidence it was done without your consent but I just don't want anyone to be fearful that someone else (a competitor perhaps) could permanently shut them down.

 

On the other hand, if you try to fool them and play innocent you'll get caught and then it's over!