Redirecting old site to new site Hosted on Discount ASP

Quick question. A company I work for has an old site somewhere else and a new site that we have built for them. They chose to use DiscountASP (great service so far) and would now like us to point all traffic on their old site to the new site. Here is where I could use some help.

The old site, we'll call it wOLD.com, needs to redirect to wNEW.com. We can not change where the DNS is hosted so I was hoping to be able to alter the A record for wOLD.com to point to the IP of discountASP. Usually I would edit the host header on the new server to accept this old domain. In the discountASP environment I am wondering if all I need to do is one of the following?

1. Either purchase a dedicated IP and point the A record of wOLD.com to the new IP.

or

2. Purchase a Domain Pointer in order to create a server alias that will pick up wOLD.com and point the requests to wNEW.com.

does that make sense?

Thanks

 

2 questions:
1 - What are you plans in regards to email?
Do you need separate email service for both domains?
2 - Do we host both sites already or just the new one?

 

Thanks for the reply.

At this point, email (mx records), is handled by a 3rd party DNS and I know they do not want to move DNS.

Email will be handled for each domain separately but by the 3rd party DNS service.

Currently you only host the new site and the old site will eventually go away. Hence the reason we started down the path of creating 301 redirects in IIS7. We kinda haulted in that effort until we really new the eventual process of moving the traffic to this new site.

Its pretty simple in that anyone that visists wOLD.com should end up being redirected to wNEW.com (which is on your system). Just not sure if there is a way to enter the old domain in the master IIS7 hostheader or if that is handled another way for you guys. I just need the old domain to be picked up by your system and route them to the correct site which is wNEW.com.

oh and if it helps, since we are doing 301's, the old domain is of no cocequence - so masking is not needed.

 

Just checking in

Not to be a pest but just wanted to see if there is any more info you guys could help me with?.

Thanks - John