Domain Masking Proxy
Add and monitor a new domain masking proxy.
Centralized management
Manage all of your domain masking proxies in one place. Add, and monitor proxies with ease.
Clean IPs
We use a pool of shared IPs to keep up their high reputation. If you or your clients need a dedicated IP, contact us for more info.
Managed SSL certificates
Your domains will always be secure with our managed SSL certificates. No need to worry about the status of your SSL certificates.
Secure
Domain Masking Proxy
Masking your domain has never been easier. We provide a clean IP address for you to point your domain to. Just a few simple steps and you're good to go.
- Simple.
- Point your domain name by setting the A record to the clean IP address assigned to you.
- Domains.
- Add the secondary domain, then specify the main domain you want to mask.
- Higher reputation.
- We rotate our IP pools to keep up their high reputation. If you need a custom IP for you and your clients, send us an email at [email protected]
Innovative
How does EmailGuard help me mask my domains?
While we didn’t invent the concept of domain masking, we’re the first to popularize it for cold emailers– especially the more technical cold email agencies.
We simply give you an IP from our shared pool (or you can purchase a dedicated one), and we then route your secondary domain through that IP.
Beyond that, we setup a “masking proxy” with SSL, so all your secondary domains look like their own websites.
And we have an API to do this at scale for all you monsters running hundreds or thousands of domains for cold email!
Why should I use domain masking proxy?
- Google and other email providers are cracking down on cold email. They notify primary domain holders (your cold email clients) about "domain spoofing"when forwarded cold email domains get too many spam complaints. Domain masking helps prevent this issue.
- We've seen a net positive in reply rates—ranging from 2x to 5x—when emails go through corporate spam filters like Proofpoint, Barracuda, and Mimecast.
- This is still an early concept, but as pioneers, we wanted to make this technology available to you as quickly as possible. We know you’ll run your own tests, and with EmailGuard, you can spin up thousands of domain masks instantly if you wish.
Frequently asked questions
The Domain Masking Proxy feature allows you to mask all your primary domain by many secondary domains. From everyone else's perspective, this effectively creates a new website for you.
You may want to separate your domains for various use cases. For example, you may have a different domain for sending enewsletters, a different domain for your main business, and another domain for sending out alerts for your app.
There can be a few downsides to traditional domain forwarding:
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1. Risk of shared IPs. Domain forwarding is often done at the registrar level, where your domain shares a “forwarding IP” with hundreds or thousands of others. If any of those shared IPs get blacklisted, or if a poor-quality IP is assigned, your domain could end up on a blacklist too.
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2. Easily Detected Redirects. When email service providers (ESPs) or bots visit your site, they can easily detect 301 or 302 redirects. This makes it easy to distinguish which domains are simply redirecting versus hosting real websites.
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3. SSL Certificates. Secondary domains typically don’t come with SSL certificates by default, which can make them appear less secure.
Your website host likely only allows authenticated requests from your primary domain. Any request from another source is automatically handed off to the main domain. In this instance, your proxy falls back to a hosted domain redirect along with all its benefits.
Some website hosting companies don’t allow proxy connections. In this case, they perform a redirect at their end. You still benefit from a “hosted domain redirect over a clean IP with SSL,” but you lose the mask.
In this case, we can recommend setting up a single landing page through Framer or proxy friendly website hosts, and then mask all secondary domains to that landing page.
We’ve not observed any downsides yet. If someone alerts us to downsides, we’re happy to dig in and come up with workarounds. We strongly believe that the community is in this battle together!
As for SEO, with EmailGuard, there's no need to worry. We take care of the domain masking headers to ensure your secondary domains are not picked up by search engines. Other masking providers might not do this, so I’d make sure you ask them first before buying.
Your web host is ensuring that requests to its servers only come through a default set of "accepted" domains. This is possible in some cases. You can either whitelist all your secondary domains with your webhost, disable your shared website firewall, or allow your domain masking proxy IP in your safe list.
Absolutely! If you need a dedicated IP for you and your clients, send us an email at [email protected]
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