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Quote:Free is Good. Or Is It?

Free, of course, is financially wonderful. Start-up ecommerce owners love free, and with good reason. It greatly decreases the risk of coming out of your ecommerce adventure at a loss. Free web hosting at Ecrater is also better than most other free hosts in that they do not plaster ugly advertisements all over your website.

Free, however, has a down side. Not paying for your own ecommerce hosting decreases your ability to design your website in the way you want it. It can also be less professional than purchased or private hosting. Ecrater also gives subdomain addresses to their ecommerce shop owners. While you can exchange it for a full domain name, many still reflect the lack of professionalism by using the free subdomain...

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Quote:Ecrater also gives subdomain addresses to their ecommerce shop owners. While you can exchange it for a full domain name, many still reflect the lack of professionalism by using the free subdomain...

How do you exchange it for a full domain name?

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Quote:Ecrater also gives subdomain addresses to their ecommerce shop owners. While you can exchange it for a full domain name, many still reflect the lack of professionalism by using the free subdomain...

How do you exchange it for a full domain name?

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Technically, you don't.  You can use URL forwarding, but that's not the same as actually having your domain hosted at Ecrater.

You can use URL forwarding to point a domain at your Ecrater store (and URL Forwarding with masking to have your domain name show in the browser).  With URL forwarding, the user will see www.yourdomain.com on every page  of your store (they won't see the individual page names though like www.yourdomain.com/page1.html, www.yourdomain.com/page2.html, etc.)