	How can my site benefit from a TinyURL address?

	Here's a few of the great benefits: 1) Permanent URL for life! 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 TinyURL 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!

	What is Prefix Forwarding (ANYTHING.you.TinyURL.Ro) all about?

	Lets us explain this with an example... If Bob registered the TinyURL: bob.filetap.com he could also use his URL with a www. prefix www.bob.filetap.com as well as anything.bob.filetap.com where anything can be any words or numbers, anytime. If you activate Prefix Path Forwarding in your account, you can forward anything.bob.filetap.com to a directory called anything on your site For more info see: Prefix Path Forwarding

	What is Prefix Path Forwarding, and how does it work?

	To understand Prefix Path Forwarding, you need to first understand that your TinyURL supports the use of anything attached as a prefix to your name (Prefix Forwarding). If you enabling path forwarding and used the forwarding prefix: ANYHTHING.you.shorturl.com visitors will be sent to a directory named/ANYTHING/ on your site. For example, Joe who uses joe.vze.com has this as his real URL: http://www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/ and he has an mp3 page at: http://www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/mp3/. Joe can use the TinyURL: tiny.ahost.ro/sdf/ page! Joe could also use regular path forwarding: joe.vze.com/anypath/anypage.html to do the same trick!

	What is Path Forwarding, and how does it work?

	You can use your TinyURL 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 TinyURL. For example, if Joe had the TinyURL: joe.vze.com which forwards to: www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/ and he wanted to link to a page at: www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/mp3links.html he could use the TinyURL: joe.vze.com/mp3links.html to forward directly to that page!

	What is Mirror Management all about?

	If you have mirrors of your site you can use your TinyURL to balance traffic between them, or provide redundancy. This can be done two ways: 1) You can have TinyURL randomly forward to a mirror, weighing any URLs you wish to get more or less traffic. 2) Or, have TinyURL 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!

	What is URL masking?

	Normally, after your TinyURL.ahost.ro 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 TinyURL 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 TinyURL, and search engines will link to your TinyURL as well. 95% of our users choose to use this feature.

	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.

	Tell me more about TinyURL traffic reports.

	With a TinyURL address you will have access to traffic stats with daily and monthly reports displaying unique and raw visits and referring URLs. We also calculate your unique/raw ratio and daily averages. The Referring URL Report allows you to see where your visitors are coming from! An hourly report displays all the URLs that have sent traffic to your TinyURL address, as well as a list of keywords used to find your site in search engines.

	Can I get the email address: myname@TinyURL.com?

	No TinyURL does not offer email forwarding services.

	Will I loose my old URL when I get a TinyURL address?

	No, it will not be effected at all. In fact, you need to keep your existing URL because we will be redirecting your TinyURL 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 TinyURL account to redirect to the new location.

	What's the catch, how is this service offered for free?

	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 frame on the bottom of your site. We have made the frame as non intrusive and small as possible. It contains a small text link to us.

	Can you create an MX record for me?

	No we do not offer this.

	Will you use advertisements on my address?

	NO!

	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 TinyURL welcome email. Otherwise go to the password retrieval page, enter your TinyURL address and we will email it to you.

	I've forgotten my TinyURL address, what do I do?

	How the heck did you loose that? If you haven't deleted your original TinyURL welcome email, you can find the address your registered listed there. Other wise you will have to contact us with the email address you signed up with, estimated signup date, and your mothers maiden name if you didnt loose that too :-)

	Can I look forward to new TinyURL features? Or may I suggest one?

	Yes! & Yes! We are always brainstorming, and looking for new ideas. At the moment, we are working on 2 new TinyURL features...soon to be released...but to stay ahead of the competition, they can't yet be announced.

	Will you help me promote my new URL?

	Yes! We offer all our users the free use of our search engine submission tool, allowing you to submit your site to the top 24 search engines. We have also developed an Internet Directory Promotion Guide, helping you get your site listed on all the popular Internet Directories. Additionaly, our webmaster tools area for our members has tips, tools, links and articles to aid you in the successful development and promotion of your site.

	Do you provide free webspace?

	No we do not provide webspace. You will need an existing website to use our service.

	Do I risk ever losing my TinyURL address?

	No, 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.