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by dcaldwell 5403 days ago
Maybe we should reword that.

The thinking behind that is that the really small nonprofits that we work with are generally relieved to find out that they can still use their domain name on their business cards and brochures and email and just forward the domain to their Bellstrike subdomain.

As a general rule most small nonprofits aren't techies, don't know the difference between hosting and a domain name and don't know what a 301 redirect is or that it's even possible. That being said, we'll certainly talk about rewording that so that it's clearer for the tech oriented audience and doesn't seem misleading. That's a pretty easy change :)

We do plan on offering a domain masking service like Flavors.me, Carbonmade, etc. where they won't have the need to do a 301 redirect.

Thanks for the feedback. We just launched today so we're glad to hear your thoughts so we can make corrections.

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Plus the search engines won't index their domain, and if in some case they had to move away from your service (I don't say they should, as the service seems to be rather cool) then they would loose their presence in search engines. This is a kind of tradeoff they should be aware of in the first step.

Ability to have custom domain name will solve this problem.