Custom domains in a shared hosting MVC site

Hi girls and guys

This one may very well be a question for a hosting company, but in my experience sales people are very good at instinctively saying 'yes'! So I thought I'd come to a trusted community instead.

I'm building an MVC (3) site (my first one), and it will be aimed at getting sports teams to register to use our service as a site for their team. My issue is that a lot of these teams already have domain names pointing to really simple sites. Even though the features I can provide are going to improve their experience, having to use my address (www.mysitesUrl.com/theirTeamName/) rather than their own domian name (www.theirTeamName.com) could be a deal-breaker.

Does anyone know how I go about setting this up in MVC? It would be ideal if the two Urls above both worked - so anyone browsing through my homepage can find their team's page and the teams can tell people their own address if they like.

As always, appreciate the help.

Re: Custom domains in a shared hosting MVC site

Can't you point their domains to an address like http://www.mysite/TeamName or create an alias?

Re: Custom domains in a shared hosting MVC site

raduenuca -

Thanks for the reply.

The end result is that, as they browse throught the site, they retain their domain name in the Url. I belive that using the link helper class in MVC keeps everything relative anyway so that'll probably help.

So when they hit their 'news' page, I'd like them to see:

www.theirDomain.com/news

Or if someone finds their team using my service and visits their news page, I'd like them to see:

www.myDomain.com/theTeamName/news

This may be a very simple request, but not something I've set up before.

Are you saying that forwarding and/or using an alias would achieve this?

One thing to note is that I'll be using the Url segment /theTeamName/ as a routing parameter - as there will be more than one team using the site.

Cheers