Please clarify what this means?

[Plumley]

scalamedia Wrote:So is this sometimes used to trick a person to visit a site other than what they are looking for or just a way to get things done? I am wondering if this is what happens when say you end up at an adult that you had no intention of visiting?

With adult sites and the like, you could be talking about a plain old redirect but mostly those are pop up consoles.

You'd use masked URL forwarding if you owned a catchy domain name but your site was actually somewhere like a free site. You'd want your visitors to see http://catchyname.com rather than http://freesites.cheaphosting.com/username. That's what masked url forwarding does.