so the question is is what is domain
forwarding so domain forwarding is a
great service you can use from your DNS
service provider that allows you to
forward your domain name that you
purchased from them to another URL this
is an absolutely great tool to use in
the modern world especially with so many
companies using other people's platforms
this allows you to have your own domain
but not have to run your own web server
so to understand how DNS normally works
as far as websites go normally you
purchase your domain name failed normal
com geek sexy news.com geek field notes
com so on and so forth and then what you
do is you point that to a web server so
an Apache web server or an iis web
server you then install your your
website onto that server and then
whenever anybody goes to your domain
name fail normal comm and they get
routed to your web server your web
server then knows what to do with that
traffic and then the person is presented
with a website so that's how people have
been doing websites with DNS for you
know decades now and that's the normal
way to do it
well the question comes is what happens
about in the modern world when you want
to use a platform's profile or page for
you as your website so let's say you go
to facebook.com you create a Places page
for your business and you want that to
be the website for your business but you
sit there and you look at that horrible
name that they give you www.facebook.com
/ last lish and it just it just looks
absolutely horrible well what you can do
with domain forwarding is you can go to
GoDaddy or Hostgator or some other dns
registrar you can purchase a domain name
from them so again failed failed normal
com or geek field notes com and then
after you purchased the domain name from
them you go when you look for the option
for forwarding the domain and so all you
do is you go and there will be a little
a little box and essentially you can
copy and paste the URL of where you want
your your web visitors to go and then
when people go to fail normal com or
let's say the daily blog com instead of
going to your website
we'll get redirected to whatever URL
that you provided in the configuration
setting so right now if you look at the
daily blog com so I own the domain name
the daily blog com
but I don't want to run a website for
the daily blog com
so what I've done is I've purchased
service from pod bean dot-com so pod
being calm allows me to provide people
video podcasts of the two-hour shows
that I create every day and they host
all of that so now instead of me having
to set up my own web server me having to
set up WordPress or whatever else me
having to do all those configurations
what I do is I pay pod being a set
amount every month and then what I would
have had happen is that the daily blog
com is now forwarded to the daily blog
dot pod been calm and so now it gets
redirected that way so that way I can
have a domain name that's very easy to
tell people so if you want to say you
want to listen to my two hour shows
after I do them you go to that daily
blog comm so I get the ease of use of a
domain name without having to deal with
all the configurations and actually
building up a website this can be very
useful right now in the modern world
especially with a lot of people being
concerned about platforms and whether or
not they will continue to use platforms
now we see a lot of things nowadays with
people worried about being deep platform
so they see like Alex Jones or they see
gap com or they see somebody else the
platform and so a lot of times when we
talk about platforms when we talk about
whether or not we traced we trust
platforms that people get the wrong idea
they think well I'm not political I'm
not you know right-wing or left-wing I'm
just I'm just somebody down the middle
I'm just trying to sell pizzas or
whatever else you know I'm not gonna get
into all that stuff I'm not worried
about the platforming but the big thing
to understand here is you may just
simply self the platform remember if
you're building a business you're
generally not building a business for
one or two years you may be building a
business for for two or three decades
and so when you get a domain name and
you start giving things like URLs to all
your customers and all your
clients they may have that information
not just for a couple of months but for
a couple of years or maybe even 10 years
when you hand out business cards people
can't keep business cards for a long
time so what happens let's say right now
you like Facebook Facebook is the
greatest thing in the world it's
bringing you a lot of customers you're
very happy with Facebook so you go out
there and you plug Facebook's URL onto
your business card because you have you
want everybody go to Facebook site in
order to find out more about your
business well what happens at five
here's what happens when the next
Facebook comes out or what happens at
Facebook does something incredibly
stupid and you just simply decide you
don't want to use Facebook anymore well
if all of your marketing material all
this information about your company
organization has been put out there with
the Facebook URL then when you decide to
go over to another platform or you
decide to do something else then you
have a big transition cost now you have
to put out new advertising now you have
to tell people with the old advertising
where the new website is so on and so
forth on the other hand if you buy a
domain name from day one and then you
forward it to wherever you want it
forward it to you forward it to YouTube
where you forward its Facebook or you
forward it to Twitter or whatever else
and then after a while you decide you
know I don't want to use that platform
anymore I want to use something else
then all you do is you change one
configuration for that domain forwarding
and now everybody gets redirected to
that new place so I look at that now we
feel notes so I'm creating this specific
type of instructional video now and I'm
kind of curious to see whether or not it
will work whenever you start a new
project whenever you start a new project
in technology you hope for the best and
then you see what happens and so these
videos may do very well or they may fail
and everybody hates them here's the
thing I don't want to build up a website
I don't want to have to go through all
of the advertising cost and resource
consumption of trying to point people to
a website with these videos if I don't
know if they're gonna work right because
I don't will this work won't this work I
don't know so what I can do is I bought
the domain name geek field notes and so
geek field notes now redirects to a
youtube channel I can go along I can see
whether or not people like the video
I can see what about the videos they
like I can see what I want to change so
on afford so forth I can do all of that
experimentation on YouTube where I don't
have to worry about configurations I
don't have to worry about security I
don't have to worry about a lot of
things and then once I've gotten enough
content once I've got enough traction to
know where I'm going what I want to do
then what I can do is I can build my own
WordPress site with my own video backend
with everything that goes along with it
and then I simply then point geek field
notes now to my new website no longer to
YouTube and now everybody just simply
gets redirected there there'll be a
little bit of confusion they'll go there
they'll see the videos but it won't be
YouTube you'll scratch your head they'll
click on a video to watch a video and
everybody will be happy
and so this is the type of reason why
you want your domain name so any type of
business basically the first thing that
you should do in the modern world is if
you're gonna start a business you get a
domain name the reason being is one so
that you have some some place for people
to go to for a website again even if it
gets redirected somewhere else and plus
two you get your own email address so
Eli at Phil normal comm or he lied Eli
the computer guy comm and that looks
more professional especially when you go
out there and buy business cards if
you're buying business cards for forty
or a hundred dollars this way you can
have a nice domain name on there you can
have a nice email address on there it
makes you look more professional even
when you that's not you are not
necessarily that professional at that
point and it's a lot easier to close
sales so that's what domain forwarding
is and that's why it's important whether
whether you're political or not I know
right now you may be sitting there and
you think this is all about politics
it's all about the platform but it's
also it's also about business right if
you have a local pizza shop you know
Baltimore and Baltimore's best pizza
shop if you're pointing everybody to
that Facebook page what happens in a
couple of years when another site or
another platform is a better place for
your business if you have if you already
have a domain name you simply forward it
to that new place and then that's all
the work you have to do versus if you
you know had put out the URL for
Facebook or for whatever else for a
number of years now there's a huge
painful migration process to get people
to know where
should go to next so that's what domain
domain name forwarding is and why you
should care