Updated on 22 July 2025

Managing web forwarding

1 The different types of domain redirects
2 Social media forwarding
3 Parking page
4 Email forwarding

The different types of domain redirects

Our web forwarding service is included for free with all your domain name registrations. It makes it possible to redirect domain names to a URL.

For example, you could redirect from www.netim.com to www.netim.fr
Once the redirect is set up, users typing www.netim.com in their address bar will be directed to www.netim.fr instead.

You can access the forwarding control panel by doing the following:

  1. Log in to your Netim Direct account
  2. Select “My domains” in the left menu
  3. Click on the domain you would like to redirect and on “Web forwarding”
 
Add a new redirect
Types of forwarding What the user types Website URL in the address bar SEO score
Permanent redirect (301)
www.netim.com
www.netim.fr
www.netim.fr
www.netim.fr indexed
Temporary redirect (302)
www.netim.com
www.netim.fr
www.netim.fr
www.netim.com indexed
Masked redirect (URL frame)
www.netim.com
www.netim.fr
www.netim.com
Bad for SEO
  • 301 and 302 redirects are unmasked: when users try to access netim.com, they will be redirected to netim.fr and their address bars will display netim.fr instead of netim.com.
  • With masked redirects, the source website is executed in a frame, so the address bar still displays netim.com instead of netim.fr.

The “Do not pass query parameters (advanced)” option makes it possible for every page on your website to be redirected to the same URL.

  • If you redirect www.netim.com to ww.netim.fr, the query parameters are passed by default.

So when you try to access netim.com/test, you’ll be redirected to netim.fr/test

  • However, if you choose to enable the “Do not pass query parameters (advanced)” option, any source URL will direct users to the URL you picked when setting up your redirect.

So if you try to access netim.com/test, you’ll be redirected to netim.fr and not netim.fr/test

Social media forwarding

This type of forwarding allows you to redirect users to your social network profiles.
 
We offer redirects to most social networks: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, GitHub and Twitch.
 

You can access the forwarding control panel by doing the following:

  1. Log in to your Netim Direct account
  2. Select “My domains” in the left menu
  3. Click on the domain you would like to redirect and on “Web forwarding”
Add a new redirect Social media

Parking page

A parking page allows you to display content while you wait for your site to go live. Netim displays a message on your parking page by default. If you would like to customise this message, simply go to the “Add a redirect” tab and input your HTML code in the relevant window.

You can access the forwarding control panel by doing the following:

  1. Log in to your Netim Direct account
  2. Select “My domains” in the left menu
  3. Click on the domain you would like to redirect and on “Web forwarding”
add a new redirect parking page

Email forwarding

Our email forwarding service is included for free with all your domain name registrations.

For example, if my domain is www.netim.fr, I can create a forwarding email address, contact@netim.fr, and redirect it to me@gmail.com. Every email sent to contact@netim.fr will then go through our forwarding servers and end up in the me@gmail.com inbox.

See our dedicated tutorial on how to create an e-mail redirect or catch-all.