Hi Jerry,
Thanks for trying to help. We have looked at both Enterprise and Small business offerings.
The problem is this, we require the SharePoint area to accessible from within location where we operate. The place where we work has a restricted list of words that are not allowed to appear in a URL "Sharepoint" is one such word.
He have our own domain so we tried to use a sub-domain of that using the enterprise version. As you have said though you cannot use it to point to a private collection only a public one.
We then tried the small business version however you cannot use sub-domains and we are reluctant to alter the name servers of this domain as we have a 24/7 commitment for that domain as it hosts a number of live applications.
That is why I asked the question as to whether we are able to alter the URL to remove the word "Sharepoint" I am guessing from your answer that we cant.
Thanks again,
Bill