Hi Pinnochio-ga,
I have bad news and a possible solution.
First, the bad news. According to the FAQ at
http://home.attbi.com/pwpaddresses.html#vanityurl
your free Personal Web Page can only be accessed the following ways:
1) Through http://home.attbi.com/~flemingsfurniture
2) Through, as you already know,
http://flemingsfurniture.home.attbi.com
Unfortunately, "free" often entails some restrictions, in this case,
the fact that your free page is under a "home" subdomain under the
main attbi.com domain.
Okay, now (partially) good news. The "partially" comes from the fact
that you'll have to spend some money. If you want to use the common
www address, you can register a domain name, and then utilize what's
called a "domain redirection", "domain forwarding," or "URL
forwarding" service.
My first thought was to suggest that you register
"flemingsfurniture.com." But unfortunately another Flemings Furniture
already has taken that domain, as you may already know. However ...
FLEMINGSFURNITURE.NET
FLEMINGSFURNITURE.ORG
FLEMINGSFURNITURE.INFO
FLEMINGSFURNITURE.BIZ
FLEMINGSFURNITURE.US
... are all available as of right now. As an example, you registered
the domain, FLEMINGSFURNITURE.BIZ, which I think has a certain ring to
it. You purchase a plan from a registration/hosting site that includes
domain forwarding. When a visitor typed in
http://www.flemingsfurniture.biz they would be sent to your
home.attbi.com address.
As noted by Chris below, there are a slew of URL redirection services.
I'd suggest taking your time, finding a registration service that
provides free URL redirection, and go from there. As a starting
point, try this Google search ...
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=URL+redirection+domain+forwarding
And without belaboring the obvious, I should point out that if you're
going to take the route of paying money for your own domain, you
should consider simply taking your site to another hosting service
that will provide a turnkey solution. Many hosting services offer
software simmiar -- or better than -- provideded by attbi.com. My
personal favorite registrar/host site is GoDaddy, at
http://www.godaddy.com/, but again, there's a slew of others offering
similar services.
Best of luck with your site
rico |