What’s the difference between domain forwarding and masking?

Domain forwarding (sometimes called connecting, pointing or redirecting) lets you automatically direct your domain’s visitors to a different location on the web. If your domain is registered with ELITEWEB.Co and you use our nameservers, you can forward your ELITEWEB.Co domain to a site you’ve created with Wix, WordPress or any other URL.

Domain forwarding has two options: forwarding only and forwarding with masking. Both options will redirect your visitors, but forwarding with masking has additional features you can use.

Forwarding only

• Redirects visitors to a destination URL of your choosing
• Keeps the destination URL in the browser address bar

Example: Assign coolexample.com to forward only to coolwebsite.net. When a visitor types coolexample.com in a browser address bar, they will be redirected to the site for coolwebsite.net. The browser address bar will update to show coolwebsite.net.

Forwarding with masking

• Redirects visitors to a destination URL of your choosing
• Keeps your domain name in the browser address bar
• Allows you to enter meta-tags for search engine information

Example: Assign coolexample.com to forward with masking to coolwebsite.net. When a visitor types coolexample.com in a browser address bar, they will be redirected to the site for coolwebsite.net. The browser address bar will continue to show coolexample.com, effectively masking the destination URL.

Related step

• Is domain forwarding right for you? Set up forwarding in your ELITEWEB.Co account.

More info

• Want to build your own website instead? Take a look at our do-it-yourself Website Builder features.
• Keep your domain active and avoid expiration by turning on auto renew.