.mac question about domain names

1. Everyone can view it
2. It will be something like homepage.mac.com/whatever. But you can redirect any URL to that page (whatever.com).

 

iWeb pages, by default if published on .Mac, will be at http://web.mac.com/(username)/(sitename)/(pagename)

Replace (username) with your .Mac username, (sitename) with the name of your iWeb site (you can have more than one), and (pagename) with the name of your iWeb site's page.

 

As has been said, iWeb sites are available for anyone to view.

To get your own domain name to point to your .Mac website, you need to register it, and have it point to the .Mac site. Apple does not do this for you. (Domain hosting is the only thing keeping me from dumping Yahoo as my primary email.) Domain registrars (like GoDaddy) can register a name for you, and have it point to any web address you want. This makes it so that when someone types in your domain, they get automatically forwarded to your .Mac website. My own works this way. I have it registered with Yahoo, but have it forward to my .Mac address. My domain is www.hurtley.org, but you'll see that you are immediately forwarded to web.mac.com/ehurtley/iWeb/hurtley.org. Most registrars can even do it 'transparently', so that you would only see your domain name, not web.mac.com/etc. GoDaddy calls this 'Domain Forwarding & Masking'.

(Note that I am not endorsing GoDaddy, they're just the biggest name in the business right now, so I use them as an example.)