Domain Inform - What Is Domain Masking

What Is Domain Masking?

Domain masking allows you to have your domain name appear in the address bar instead of your normal URL. Domain masking is great if you have a URL that looks like this: noteasytorememberdomain.com and you might want your domain name to show up in the visitors' browsers address bar like: www.Your-Domain.com. One of the many reasons why people prefer domain masking to normal web hosting is because they do not want to change their old URL which they have been using for years.

Well say you own a website carbon.net and then you decide that you want to buy the .com version of your website or when you registered your domain name it was not available at the time, but later became available. So I acquired the domain name and forward that domain to my website. I now want to make it so that if they put in the domain name carbon.com it will look like they when to (carbon.com). even thought they are infact on (carbon.net)

If I Forward A Domain & Use Domain Masking
How Will My Other Pages Look?

The answer is simply this. Say you have (carbon.com) and you forward it to (carbon.net) if they typed in (carbon.com) it would display (carbon.com) but it will also simply display (carbon.com /otherpages.html) when you go to other pages within a forwarded domain. That page normally looks like this (carbon.net/otherpages.html). they are however the same website though.

How does search engine indexing work With Domain Forwarding?

Do the Search Engines know that it’s simply a mask and ignores the carbon.com domain name? Or is it going to double index, and have two competing sets of identical results under each domain name?

Search engines know that when you forward a domain name you are telling them that that domain is now a part of your website they will only index the target URL in this case carbon.net

They will also know that the domain is masked and that it is really carbon.net and know other website. Domain masking is just for face. Only the visitors will think that that is the real domain name.