How can my site benefit from a BrainyURL address?
Here's a few of the great benefits:
1) Umlimted Redirects!
If your host goes down, or you choose to move your site
to another host, you can redirect your traffic instantly.
No matter how many times you move your site, your visitors
will always find you.
2) Get a short, professional looking & easy to remember URL!
3) Make sure visitors get to YOUR site and not your affiliates.
If you have a url that has your affiliate or other tracking ID in it then
it's known that some people may cut out or change it when visiting your URL.
4) Features such as Mirror Management can greatly benefit
a webmaster who uses mirrors to balance traffic or
provide redundancy. You can use BrainyURL to divert traffic to mirrors according
to weights you assign, or generate a list of your mirrors,
so you can always have a permanent mirror list for visitors to choose from!
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What is Subdomain Forwarding (anyname.BrainyURL.com) all about?
Lets us explain this with an example...
If Joe registered the BrainyURL: joe.brainyurl.com he could also use his URL with a www. prefix
www.joe.brainyurl.com anytime.
We can forward
anyname.brainyurl.com to a directory called anything on your site
For more info see: Path Forwarding
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What is Path Forwarding, and how does it work?
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You can use your BrainyURL to forward to a specific path and/or file on your site
by simply adding that path and/or file name to the end of your BrainyURL. For example, if Joe had the BrainyURL: joe.com-log.in
which forwards to:
www.sample-web-host.com/users/joe/ and he wanted to link to a page at:
www.sample-web-host.com/users/joe/download.html he could use the BrainyURL: joe.com-log.in/download.html
to forward directly to that page!
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What is Mirror Management all about?
If you have mirrors of your site you can use your BrainyURL to balance traffic between them, or
provide redundancy.
This can be done two ways: 1) You can have BrainyURL randomly
forward to a mirror, weighing any URLs you wish to get more or less traffic. 2)
Or, have BrainyURL generate a page, providing visitors with a list your mirrors to choose from along with a description for
each one. If one URL goes down or is slow, visitors can use another, helping
keep your site online at all times!
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What is URL masking?
Normally, after your BrainyURL.com forwards to your real URL, your real URL is
then shown in the browser's address bar. Turning on URL masking, allows you to keep your BrainyURL in the address bar
by using a hidden frame trick. This frame is invisible to the user. Then, if visitors bookmark your site,
they bookmark your BrainyURL subdomain, and search engines will link to your BrainyURL as well. 95% of our users
choose to use this feature.
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What is Frame Kill?
Frame Kill forces your site to pop out of any frames it may be loading in.
For example if another website links to you and opens your site inside their frame.
How does this work? If you have URL masking turned on, we insert JavaScript code
into the hidden frame. If URL masking is off, we create an invisible and temporary page loading the JavaScript to first
pop out your site then use HTML to forward the user. This process is invisible to the user, other than seeing your
site pop out of a frame.
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Tell me more about BrainyURL traffic reports.
With a BrainyURL address you will have access to view, Number of Raw Hits, Browser Stats and Operating System Stats.
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Can I get the email address: myname@BrainyURL.com?
No BrainyURL does not offer email forwarding services.
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I have not yet received an activation email with my password!
Possible Reason #1:
We've noticed that during busy times on the net, some email providers (notably the free
email services such as hotmail, excite, nightmail, yahoo etc) will not immediately accept
mail. We queue these mails and re-try delivery every five minutes, but be aware that if you
use a free email service, you may have to wait several hours for your email provider to
accept your mail from us.
Possible Reason #2:
You may have made a typo when entering your email address.
Possible Reason #3:
Your email provider may be suffering network problems and the email delivery has been lost, rejected or delayed.
Solution:
Click Here to Visit our Activation Email Resend Page
where you can resend the email or make changes to the email address.
You will need to login using your BrainyURL address and the first name
you provided when you created your account.
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Will I loose my old URL when I get a BrainyURL address?
No, it will not be effected at all. In fact, you need to keep your existing URL because we will be redirecting your BrainyURL address
to that location. We are a URL redirection service, not a hosting service. If you ever
change your real website address, you can easily update your BrainyURL account to redirect
to the new location.
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Is your service free ?
Subdomains created with brainyurl.com are free and premium subdomains can be purchased ad free on a month to month basis. Unlike other redirects, we do NOT place annoying pop-up ads
or banner frames on your site. We have had to however start displaying
a small text ad frame on the top of your site.
We have made the frame as non intrusive and small as possible.
It contains a small text link to us. View an example by going here:
http://domains.brainyurl.com. This
sample contains more information about why and how the frame is
implemented.
Remove the ad frame by upgrading to a Premium Account.
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Can I get my own domain, myname.com?
No! We do not offer domain registration service. Currently you can only setup domain redirects with a subdomain.
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Can I forward to a network IP address?
You can forward to an IP address that resolves normaly through the browser with http://69.147.76.15
If port 80 is blocked on your home network, setup your webserver to work on another port and
build it into the URL. For example, http://69.147.76.15:81/ where 81 is the port.
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Can you create an MX record for me?
No we do not offer this service.
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Will you use advertisements on my address?
Premium accounts have no advertisements. Basic accounts show a small
top frame with text link ads.
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I've lost my password, what do I do?
If you've never changed your assigned password, then you can find your assigned
password in the BrainyURL welcome email. Otherwise go to the password retrieval page, enter your BrainyURL address and we will
email it to you.
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I've forgotten my BrainyURL address, what do I do?
If you haven't deleted your original BrainyURL welcome email, you can find the address your registered
listed there. Other wise you will have to contact us with the
email address, name you signed up with, and estimated signup date.
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Can I look forward to new BrainyURL features? Or may I suggest one?
Yes! We are always brainstorming, and looking for new ideas. Contact our support team to suggest new features.
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Will you help me promote my new URL?
We will provide you with premium link building and traffic resources to help you promote your link.
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Do you provide free webspace?
No we do not provide webspace. You will need an existing website to use our service.
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Do I risk ever losing my BrainyURL address?
No, for free subdomains, as long as you do not violate our Terms of Services.
Basically, if you don't spam or forward to explicit porn or illegal material then you're addres stays
active.
However to protect ourselves and you, we can't promise anything.
If you want a 100% guarantee, we suggest buying your own domain name like yourname.com. You will be the
true owner of your own domain, not life-time dependent upon ours or our servers. You will have the freedom to
transfer your domain name to any registrar, at anytime, should you ever be unhappy with service.
For Premium sudomains, your URL will remain active as long as you continue to pay the monthly subscription fee. If you cancel your subscription then your URL will become disabled and open to the public for registration.
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