Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name.
[1] There are many ways to do this, including the following examples.
[3] Masking does not affect the content of the actual website; it only covers up the original URL/domain name.
Domain masking prevents users from being able to see the actual domain website, whether it be due to length or privacy/security issues.
This Internet domain name article is a stub.