Trust & safety

Check where a link leads

Short links hide their destination by design - That's fine for a friend's meme, less fine for a link from a stranger. You can look before you leap.

Reveal the destination without clicking

Paste any goto.now link into the link checker and we show its destination without visiting it - No click is counted, nothing loads on your device, and the link's owner isn't notified.

That last part matters: checking is completely silent. You can inspect a suspicious link from an email without tipping anyone off or inflating anyone's stats. The checker is public and free - You don't need an account, and neither does the person you forward it to.

Reading the revealed domain

Look closely at the revealed domain: paypa1.com is not PayPal. Scammers count on fast reading, so slow down on exactly these tricks:

• Swapped characters - A 1 for an l, a 0 for an o.
• Extra words - Paypal-security-check.com isn't PayPal either; the real domain is the part right before .com.
• Lookalike endings - .net or .co where you'd expect .com.

When your gut says something's off

Treat any unsolicited link with urgency-pressure ("act in 2 hours!") as suspicious. Real companies don't threaten you into clicking. When in doubt, don't click - Report it instead. A report costs you thirty seconds; a confirmed malicious link gets disabled for everyone, so your caution protects the next person too.

Prefer a middle ground between checking and clicking? Add /p/ before the short code to open the preview page - You'll see the destination with a Continue button, so you decide with full information.