Domain name by CO.NR

CO.NR provides you free domain names with the postfix .co.nr like yourname.co.nr . This sites provide you with url masking service. For details about URL masking view my post URL Masking (URL Cloaking). So, to give an overview it is hiding your original web address with other another URL. For example, if your address is something like http://you.yourhost.com/ or http://yourhost.com/you etc. will get replace with http://yourname.co.nr .

This is a free service and easy to configure. Just follow this simple instructions:

1. Book your account on webhost providing you with subdomain names or subfolders (Almost all webhost give this).
2. Open an account on CO.NR and configure it to point to your homepage.
3. Also fill the whole form with meta tags, favicon etc. and you are done with the process.

With URL Masking it also supports URL forwarding which means if you type http://yourname.co.nr/subdir it will open and mask the URL http://yourhost.com/you/subdir.

In addition to URL Masking CO.NR also provides URL redirection that is when someone types your CO.NR domain name, he is redirected to your homepage and no URL hiding takes place. This is good if you don't want to hide your original URL but I will not prefer that you do it.

Though there are some drawbacks of CO.NR domain names:

1. When you click on a link on any page of your website which is relative (Ex- href="subdir/index.html"), the url in the address bar of the bar does not change. Instead use absolute links like href="http://yourname.co.nr/subdir/index.html" with a target="_top" added to the hyperlink.
   
2. This uses a framed structure, so it becomes hard for the Search Engines to index your website.
3. You have to link back to CO.NR website from your website's home page using one of their graphical buttons.