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It looks like it created a new domain with my profile. I obviously missed something
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You’ll need to point the domain at the infinity Free Name servers
then add it to your account
This link gives you the full information
Once again I ask a question and stumble on the answer while playing with settings. lol… One other question, do they not have stealth re-direct were the domain name doesn’t change? or do I need premium for that.
I think if you want your domain to not change, you will have to move everything from the target domain to the domain you are talking about. I am not sure about stealth redirects, and I don’t know if it’s a premium hosting thing.
That make sense. I think I will leave it as is for now. It’s only temporary until I’m ready to get an official domain. Stealth re-direct is forwarding with masking. It’s available on the site where the domain was purchased, but when I try to use my infinity free domain as a forward with masking address it doesn’t work. Someone said that it wasn’t allowed. At least that’s what I understood what I read to mean. Either way, at least I know have a temporary one until.
I hope i got you right.
You have some second-order site like yourname.freedomain.com perfectly working.
You also own a domain let’s say yourname.com
You want to type yourname.com in the browser and view and use the second-order site without it showing its actual domain.
You have 3 choices:
It does allow it. But I think the problem is on infinityfree’s side. I read and older comment (wish I bookmarked it) Where someone was having a similar issue. I did do the second thing where I’m using infinityfree’s nameservers and it’s at least forwarding. But I think I’m going to leave it at that since I will be getting a new official domain for the site at some point.
URL masking/framing is stupid and should be avoided at all costs. It will cause you a LOT of problems and should only ever be used as a last resort when there is absolutely no way to link your domain name to your website directly.
And you can just add your domain name to our hosting, so there is no reason to use URL masking, which means you should not be using it.
Stupid sounds a bit harsh lol. I’ve used it for YEARS. Never had an issue.
Either way, I already have a infinityfree domain and was trying to avoid switching for something that was temporary.
URL masking can be dangerous because it hides the actual URL and displays a different URL, which can mislead users and potentially expose them to malicious sites
Certainly not good practice.
But it’s not a malicious site, it’s my site. And that’s what antimalware software is for. You can get exposed to a malicious site without masking. Matter of fact, it’s probably not masking in most cases. Not everyone has webhosting and their domain on the same service. I doubt true malice is the first thought when using the service.
Apologies for the confusion. I’m not trying to say that your site is malicious. Or even that the majority of people using URL masking are using it for malicious intent.
My point was more that it carries a set of risks and a reputation that you need to be aware of.
To be honest though, there are better ways of achieving the same result without masking. Such as redirecting, or changing name servers.
For example, here you can point your domain at the infinity free name servers (even if that’s through an external service like cloudflare), then add that domain as a parked or alias domain on your existing site.
You can then access your site through either the original infinity free domain or your custom domain. If you really want to, you can even remove the infinity free domain.
That’s how I do mine, since none of my sites use an infinity free domain.
lol. I didn’t think you were. You however did seem to be co-signing the person who replied before you, as if it isn’t a legitimate service that most domain host offer. Ads on free sites can be a great danger. There more likely to be exploited malicious code injection. But then again, that’s why we have antimalware.
Apologies that’s not how it was meant to come across I was simply stating my opinion on the topic. Although it does happen to be similar to admins.
I do understand there are legitimate uses of url masking. For example we use it at my work so we can do internal and customer demos, but hide the url of our testing environment.
And 100% there are higher risks. A good antivirus and anti-malware are vital on any Internet connected computers
To be clear, you’re not stupid for using it. IMO domain providers are stupid for presenting it as a perfectly normal option without the very stern warnings, such as:
If you don’t care about any of these things, then URL masking may be good enough for you. But I still cannot recommend it to anyone under any circumstances, because a much better solution exists.
On the side note of antivirus software: it’s useful, but far from perfect. Anti virus software works by maintaining a list of known bad content. But good security practices can protect you from entirely new threats that are not yet known to your virus scanner. And it can do the same for the visitors of your website.
Understandable. Most threats online are probably from things like cross scripts which good programs block in real time. Good convo tho. Hopefully I’ll be getting an official domain in the next few months and none of this will be an issue.