Manage Your Domain

📄️ How can I add a free short.gy subdomain?

Short.io offers you the chance to register a subdomain of our short.gy domain and utilize it for link shortening at no cost.

📄️ How can I add domain?

For shortening links, you need a registered corporate or personal domain/subdomain.

📄️ How can I delete my domain?

You can delete your domain from Short.io. Nevertheless please consider the following:

📄️ How can I forward my short domain to another website?

The Main page redirect feature allows redirection to any page of your site. If the users directly visit your short branded domain, by mistake or deliberately, they will be routed to a specified page of your main website.

📄️ How do I delete all my existing links?

You need to delete your short domain and add it again. No DNS configuration needed.

📄️ How to activate a free short.gy subdomain

If you create a free short.gy subdomain and you have not previously added a phone number in your profile settings, the subdomain will not be activated immediately.

📄️ How to add DNS records on purchased domain

For domains purchased on Short.io, you can add the following types of DNS records:

📄️ How to apply custom CSS for password protected links

You can customize the appearance of a password protected short link.

📄️ How to buy a domain on Short.io

You can buy a domain via Short.io at the exact price at which the domain registrars are selling it.

📄️ How to configure robots.txt settings

The robots.txt file is the place where search engine bots and other crawlers (including AI/LLM ones) visit to review the rules about what they can or, more importantly, cannot crawl regarding your domain.

📄️ How to customize the 404 parameter

In case you want to safely migrate to a new domain you can customize the 404 parameter of your domain for shortening links. Therefore, when the short link is accessed, the visitors will be automatically redirected to the new domain's 404 page.

📄️ How to hide visitors IP addresses from the Click Stream list

In specific circumstances, you may prefer to hide the IP addresses of your visitors and prevent their recording.

📄️ How to redirect short links from old nonexistent pages to new ones

In case some of your short links still point to pages which no longer exist, you can prevent your visitors from seeing the 404 error by configuring the Page not found redirect option from your short domain settings.

📄️ How to renew a domain registered on Short.io

You can renew an expiring (or expired) domain which you purchased from Short.io. Follow the instructions below:

📄️ How to restrict destinations (target URLs)

Let us consider the following misuse scenario: a malicious actor exploits public API (or some loophole) to create a short link on your domain — or on a domain you trust — that points to a destination you do not allow, such as an unrelated, untrusted, or even phishing/malware site. Users see the short link, and because they trust your domain, they click on it and get misled.