Bulk Services (aliases)

Domain-dns allows you to "alias" a bunch of domains to a main domain (the zone). When this is done the domains all behave the same. DNS records are the same, e-mail goes to the same destinations/mailboxes, and web services display the same content.

The primary benefit of this is that maintenance is easy, you only have make one set of updates, instead of having to update the main zone and all the aliases.

Sometimes you don't want them to be perfectly identical. The Redirect, Business Card, and Frameset Forward services allow you to include [HOST] and/or [ZONE] in the text and targets.

[HOST] will be replaced with whatever dns name the visitor has in their address bar. Usually this would be WWW.domain or domain, but it could be some.wierd.subdomain.domain when wildcard DNS is enabled.

[ZONE] on the other hand will be the bare domain. (And yes, that was a bad choice of names. If they visited an aliased domain, it will be the aliased domain shown, not the main "zone" the the domain is aliased to.)

How you use this is up to you. There are examples of landers that take targets like https://lander.example.com/domain ... so you could use a redirect target of https://lander.example.com/[ZONE]

... and any web-programmer should be able to load a domain name into a contact us form for a redirect like: https://example.com/domain-sales-form.php?domain=[ZONE]

p.s. Loading the alias list is supposed to be trivial. It is displayed as a comma separated list, but space separated domains, one per line, etc... are all accepted as input.

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