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What does it mean to forward with masking or cloaking a domain?
by Wild West Domains staff, edited by Mohan Kapoor, Supervisor, Himalayan Websites
Forwarding a domain name enables you to direct incoming traffic from your domain to an already existing Web site. Thus, when someone attempts to access your site, he or she is automatically redirected. When the domain name is forwarded, the destination address, not your domain name, is displayed in the browser's address bar.
If you decide to forward with masking or cloaking, visitors are effectively
kept away from knowing they have been redirected.
Forwarding with masking secures that your domain name remains in a visitor's
browser's address bar when the visitor is being redirected. That way,
the actual destination address is concealed from the user who only sees
the domain name from which he or she is being forwarded.