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Is there a drawback to using stealth forwarding?

Yes, there is a drawback when you use stealth forwarding. With stealth forwarding, visitors to your website will not be able to see your site's sub-directory structure. They will also not be able to bookmark specific pages on your website when you use stealth forwarding.

This is because stealth forwarding uses frames and only serves to forward a visitor to the web page you have specified in the stealth forwarding option. Once your visitor has reached your website, the URL in the address bar will not change no matter which page he/she navigates to until he/she reaches a web page which breaks out of the frames. Once a visitor breaks out of the frames, the website's real URL address will be visible in the web browser's URL bar.

For example, say you have a page http://name.somedomain.com/folder/somepage.html and when you use stealth forwarding, you want http://www.myexample.org/folder/somepage.html to show up instead of http://name.somedomain.com/folder/somepage.html. This will not work with stealth forwarding since your domain name can only hide the URL of your website and will always show up as http://www.myexample.org/.

If you want to be able to see your sub-directory structure, then you must create a website on myexample.org. You can do this through Dynadot's website builder or with web hosting, so your files are all hosted on myexample.org instead of at name.somedomain.com. You can also choose to use our regular domain forwarding.

Find out how to set up stealth forwarding.

Find out how to set up domain forwarding.


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