# Confused about domain names **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 28, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/confused-about-domain-names/233963 "2007-07-28T20:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xannax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/xannax/32/3350_2.png) [@Xannax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xannax)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/confused-about-domain-names/233963/1 "2007-07-28T20:37:38Z")
I’m doing webdesign and design in general since a long time, but that’s the first time I try to actually set up the webspace and domain name myself…And I am completely lost! I got my domain name from directnic…And a friend lended me some webspace on networksolutions…I tried to get help from directnic on how to get my domain name to point to a subfolder of networksolutions, but to no avail. They instructed me to redirect traffic going to my domain name to the subfolder. They keep the site in a frame, so the browser location doesn’t change…But that’s not what I want! I don’t want my site to be in a frame! I just want the freakin address to point to that subfolder. Why is it so hard? Even harder: e-mail adresses…I can create several e-mail adresses at networksolutions but all I can do at directnic to handle e-mails is also to forward them… I don’t get it. 1. Why can’t I just instruct the DNS servers to have “[www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com)” (bought on directnic) to point to “[www.myfriendwebsite.com/mydomain](http://www.myfriendwebsite.com/mydomain)” (hosted on networksolutions)? and 2. Why can’t I instruct all emails sent to "adress@mydomain.com" to use the mail servers of networksolutions? Both companies aren’t answering my questions I don’t know if I am actually expecting an answer here, just stating the fact that these big companies don’t like you to not buy a whole package and provide no feedback to someone who doesn’t want to do it. Any clarification would be appreciable.