hosting w/ DH but regged w GoDaddy

Hi,
I have a site registered with GoDaddy. How can I get that domain to use my DH hosting? Do I "HAVE TO" transfer my registration?

If so, then I have a possible work-around:
I created a free dreamhoster sub-domain; let's call it oldsite.dreamhosters.com
How do I connect the GoDaddy regged domain to this dreamhoster url?

All I know about any of this is that I need to change my NS records at GoDaddy and I know the 3 for DH are ns1.dreamhost.com and so on... ns2 .... and ns3....

Thanks!

You do not have to transfer the registeration to DH. You can keep with GoDaddy. Just point the NS servers to ns1.dreamhost.com, ns2.dreamhost.com and ns3.dreamhost.com.

Altough, I should remind you that with some (all?) plans you do get One Free domain registration.

I have already used my free registration, but this is for an old site with just two pages.

So say I set the NS's to the DH servers (ns1, ns2, ns3...)
Then what? Do I need to do some forwarding stuff?

What I used to do is forward the GoDaddy reged .com to my ISP hosting, so it was a direct forward to http://home.comcast.net....yadda yadda

Now I want to change that Comcast stuff to my DH sub-domain. So...I change the NS's, do I change the forwarding?

If I do change forwarding, will it replace the .com with the sub-domain or cloak it? I'd liek to cloak it; I'm trying not to give away my hosting in the URL.

Change the nameservers associated with your registered domain at GoDaddy.

After you do that, you'll need to go into your web panel and add a new domain where you'll be able to specify where you want the domain to be forwarded to (ie: on your host).

Since it's only two pages, you could also very easily add a fully hosted domain on your Dreamhost plan and just transfer over the files.

I think I get it...

1. Add a fully hosted site, with the correct unix folder for this site and the .com I registered thru GD.
2. Change the nameservers @ GoDaddy to the DH servers

By adding a fully hosted site, the DH nameservers say that the given .com maps to the unix folder I supplied. Since I obviously own the site, I will change the nameservers on GD to the DH servers which, as I stated say that .com goes to the unix folder. Is this understanding correct for web-hosting and domains?

Thank you!Edited by bostonrant on 03/07/06 09:48 AM (server time).