Accessible as subdomain as well as virtual directory
You can access your short URL in two ways. Either as a subdomain:
http://www.your-name.navig8.to or
as a "virtual directory":
http://www.navig8.to/your-name. Read
our FAQ if you are not sure what virtual directories
are. |
Path forwarding
You can append additional directories and/or filenames to your short
URL and we will immediately redirect your visitors to the proper URL
on your website. For example, let's assume your short URL
http://navig8.to/your-name would
redirect to
http://members.xoom.com/freeware/~james
So if your visitors enter
http://navig8.to/your-name/contact
they'd get redirected to
http://members.xoom.com/freeware/~james/contact
This feature is not restricted to one subdirectory only. It works
with any count of subdirectories. It also works for files. So if you
would use our path forwarding feature for all of your website's links
some of your visitors will not be able to recognize where your real
website lays. |
Frame killer
If you do not want other people to link your website within their
frames just activate your account's frame killer and any foreign frames
will disappear immediately. |
URL hiding
Using this feature the browser's address line of your visitors will
always show your short URL and not the URL of your real webpage. So
for example if people bookmark your site web browsers will automatically
bookmark your short URL instead of your long URL and thus visitors
will always be able to reach your site even if you change your short
URL's destination within the user interface. |
IP/host(-mask) ban
Want to deny access to your short URL and thus to your website to
people or organizations with certain IPs, IP masks, hosts and host
masks? No problem too. You can set bans within the user interface.
This feature's an ideal supplement to password protection. |
IP/host(-mask)-dependent redirection
This unique feature is an extension of the IP/host(-mask) ban feature.
It allows you to redirect people or organizations with certain IPs,
IP masks, hosts and host masks to certain destination URLs. You could
for example redirect visitors using unwanted ISPs (for example *.lao.com)
to alternate pages. This is done with just a few clicks within the
user interface. |
Mirror support
Some web sites have so many hits and thus very high
traffic so they would need to balance the load by redirecting visitors
to various mirror URLs. Our service supports an unlimited number of
mirror URLs. No more traffic problems. |
Possibility to rename your accounts
You can rename your account whenever you want without losing any
of your old account settings.
Let's assume your nick is killersheep
and you use it as account name for your short URL. Some time later
you change your nick and would like to change your account name too,
but without losing its settings. No problem, just rename your account. |
FavIcon support (IE & Konqueror)
Whenever visitors bookmark your website Internet Explorer (Windows)
and Konqueror (Linux) look for a so called FavIcon which is displayed
within the user's bookmarks next to the webpage title. You can specify
an URL to a FavIcon for your account within the user interface. The
HTML code is generated on every access to your short URL automatically.
More information about FavIcons at
http://favicon.com/ |
Supports both capital letters & small letters
No matter wheter you write your short URL in capital letters, in
small letters, or even mixed case, your website is always reachable
since services providing case-sensitive account names are sometimes
very confusing for the visitors. There is absolutely no difference
between
http://navig8.to/your-name and
http://navig8.to/YOur-nAme |
URL reachable with "www"
as well as without it
You can access your website with
http://www.navig8.to/your-name as
well as with
http://navig8.to/your-name |
Suitable for all search engines
The redirect of your short URL is optimized for search engines. You
can specify categories, descriptions, and keywords that fit your webpage
both during and after signup. When you access your short URL the information
is added to an invisible frame in a special way so search engines
are able to index your short URL much better. |
Automatic meta tags
On signup you have to specify a primary destination URL for your account.
Our script will try to automatically extract some of the meta tags
found at the given webpage so that you do not have to type - for example
- the website title, description, and keywords when signing up. |
Locking your accounts temporarily
It is possible for you to temporarily lock your account so no one
can access your short URL. It is not in need of interpreting that
you can unlock your account again, whenever you want. |
Free support
You get free e-mail support. No matter if you have questions or problems
that have to be solved, if you want to criticise something, or if
you have some draft improvements, you can always contact our customer
service which will try to help you as fast as possible. |
High speed, reliability, and security
Our service is based on scripts entirely being developed by ourselves.
These scripts gets extended and improved all the time. During development
speed, security, and user-friendliness were classified as the most
important details. As an example when you log into the user interface
your password is not stored inside HTML pages and it is also not transmitted
in an unencrypted way. Quite a lot of other redirection services still
do that, believe it or not. Should there be any bigger flaws in our
code - contrary to our expectations - we will be able to fix them
immediately. Many other redirection services are using third-party
scripts - that means if new bugs appear they will most likely not
be able to fix them.
Besides the major aim on speed and security we stressed on high reliability
of our service. We are using a dedicated high-performance system for
this service that is connected to a fast backbone. That's how we can
guarantee high performance and high accessibleness. |
Convinced? Then signup here for free! |
Please have a look at our FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) if you still have questions regarding our features. If
you do not find any satisfying answers for your questions there please
contact our customer service. |
