Yahoo Small Business – If you have a single web minded person in your company do them a favor and DO NOT use yahoo small business. Their backend panel is an absolute mess.

I’m pretty savy with DNS, .htacess, and server side redirects; some of the people working in the tech center trying to guide me through their backend are definitely not.

I’ve got two domains, one is on Yahoo as a merchant account, and the other is on go daddy. We want to mask forward the godaddy account to yahoo. No problem. The problem starts when I want to forward the yahoo url to the same name as the account on go daddy. With another mask forward we create an infinity loop. No good.

My next thought was to mask forward godaddy to yahoo and create a .htaccess file for both URLS to be forwarded to a directory in the root folder say /siteName/. BUT yahoo does not support .htaccess. I asked about IS redirects, but was told this is not a good solution as it does not always work.

The third solution I came up with was to transfer the domain to yahoo and work the files and DNS from there. Not that I thought this would help, as anything I can do from one registrar I ought to be able to do on the next with the right DNS/cname/aname settings. NO DICE! Yahoo cannot accept incoming transfer domains until later this year.

So in closing, wtf do I do to get the client’s website displaying correctly with the proper url in the address bar? The only solution left it to cancel the yahoo account and start again on a new server. This has got to be the worst option available as it means data entry, a second host account, and a waste of my client’s money due to yahoos inability to support effective DNS management.

If anyone has a solution to this issue – I am all ears.
Thank you in advance.