Welcome WA Buddies!

Here's some content I promised a few days ago. 

Because the topic of domain management can be confusing, I will separate blog posts into: domain masking, domain forwarding, disappearing domains, and shortening a URL (which could be a domain).  Each choice has more to do with what you're trying to accomplish.

Most newbies will start out by shortening a URL. In that case, you don't want people to read a terrible-looking URL so you use tiny url.  Head to http://tinyurl.com over at Google.  Type in the real URL and hit "tiny it". You'll see a shortened version.

(FREE)  tinyurl.com

Domain Masking

"Domain masking lets you protect the address of a particular site, while still allowing customers to access the content.

How It Works (In Simple Terms)

1) Register domain name

EX:  domain1.com

This is only an address -- working like the address on your home or apartment.

 2) Put Furniture In Your Home

Let's say -- domain1.com is not going to have its own web site. It's working as an umbrella for many other sites you'll eventually own. 

Later on -- you decide to use this address to display the content of another web site, say, forwarded-to.com.

So your visitors type in www.domain1.com and they see the display from the forwarded-to.com web site.

They do not see the forwarded-to.com address.