Your name on the link host
Put your name
in front of it.
Not gc.mw/q7Kdm. Your name, then your word. One registry entry carries your subdomain, your link namespace and your bio page, and nobody else can post from it.
Free to claim from 5 characters. $4.99 a year for the subdomain. Renews yearly.
Is it free?
Working with
- Ziptron
- Dr. R.K. Thakur Hospital
- RBM Hospital
Why it matters
A link is a first impression.
Most people decide whether to click before they read past the host. That decision is the whole product.
A shared shortener
- Your link looks exactly like everybody else's link
- Nothing in the URL says who sent it
- The same host has carried spam, and filters have long memories
- Every good word was claimed years ago by somebody else
- Moving away later kills every link you ever printed
A name on gc.mw
- The host itself carries your name
- Recipients can see who sent it before they click
- A namespace nobody else can create links in
- Your own words in the path, not just a random code
- The name is held in a registry, not rented per link
Start to finish
Claim it, point it, use it.
There is no DNS to configure and nothing to install. The subdomain is on our host, so it works the moment you claim it.
- 01
Check the name
Anything from 5 characters is free to claim. Shorter names are priced, and the price is shown before you commit.
- 02
Claim it
It is written into the name registry against your account and held for as long as you keep renewing.
- 03
Decide what the root shows
Your bio page, a redirect to your own website, or nothing at all. Changeable whenever you like.
- 04
Share your links
Every short link you make can live at vertex.gc.mw/yourword, with the same analytics as any other link.
What one name gets you
Three surfaces, one claim.
The name is a single entry in one registry shared across Growcord products. Claim it once and all three of these are yours.
The subdomain
yourname.gc.mw
Points at your bio page, redirects to your own site, or stays closed. You decide, and you can change it later.
The link namespace
yourname.gc.mw/launch
Your own words after your own name. Nobody else can create a link inside it, so nothing is ever already taken.
The bio page
gc.mw/@yourname
Free at any name length, with or without the subdomain. Links, blocks and a contact card people can save.
What you get
A name, and everything that hangs off it.
One claim, one renewal, and every surface below starts working at the same moment.
Working immediately
The subdomain is on our host, so there is no CNAME to add and no certificate to wait for. Claim it and it resolves within seconds.
A namespace of your own
Short links under your name rather than in the shared pool. Words that went years ago globally are usually free inside your own space.
The bio page included
gc.mw/@yourname is free at any length, even without the subdomain. Up to fifty blocks, reordered by dragging them.
One registry, every product
The same name carries your links, your bio page and your digital card. You claim it once rather than three times in three places.
Renaming keeps the old one
Change your name and the previous one stays protected and redirects for a hundred and eighty days, so nothing you shared breaks that afternoon.
Reserved words are refused
app, api, www, mail, admin and the rest are never sellable, so no name can be used to impersonate the platform itself.
The path is yours
Short words, without the land grab.
On a shared host every good word went years ago. Inside your own name they are free: vertex.gc.mw/sale is yours whether or not somebody else already took /sale on the shared pool.
- Your own aliases, uncontested by anybody else
- Campaign words that read as themselves rather than as a code
- The same analytics as any other link, in the same dashboard
- Random codes and chosen words can live side by side in one namespace
The root is yours too
Decide what the bare name does.
Somebody who types your subdomain without a code after it has to land somewhere. There are three options and you can change between them whenever you like.
- Show your bio page, with your links and a contact card
- Redirect straight through to your own website
- Return nothing at all, if the name exists purely for links
Root behaviour
Ownership, spelt out
What happens if you forget to renew.
The name is yours for as long as you renew it. We write to you thirty days before the renewal date rather than on the day, and if a payment fails there is a grace period before anything at all is released.
- 30 days of grace after the renewal date
- Links keep resolving throughout the grace period, so nothing breaks silently
- A released premium name is held out of the pool for a hundred and eighty days
- Renewal notices go out thirty days ahead, not the morning of
- Day minus 30Renewal notice by email
- Day 0Renewal date. Card charged.
- Day plus 30Grace ends. Links worked throughout it.
- Day plus 180A released premium name returns to the pool
Every feature
The whole list, and what each part needs.
The name and the subdomain are two different things, and most of the confusion about this product comes from treating them as one. This separates them.
The name
- Claiming
- Any available name of 5 characters or more is free and instant. Shorter names are priced by length and the figure is shown before you commit.
- Free plan and above
- Character rules
- One to thirty characters of lowercase letters, digits, underscores and dots. It must start and end with a letter or digit.
- All plans
- Reserved words
- Platform subdomains such as app, api, www, mail and admin are never sellable, so a name cannot be used to impersonate the platform.
- All plans
- Renaming
- Change your name and the previous one stays protected and redirects for a hundred and eighty days. Free plans may rename once every ninety days.
- All plans
- One registry
- The same name is used across Growcord products, so there is never a collision between your card, your bio page and your links.
- All plans
The subdomain surface
- yourname resolving
- The subdomain answers on our host with a certificate we manage. Nothing to add at your registrar, nothing to renew yourself.
- Pro and above, or $4.99 a year
- Your link namespace
- Create short links under your own name. Aliases inside your namespace are yours alone, so common words are usually still free.
- Pro and above
- Root behaviour
- Point the bare subdomain at your bio page, redirect it to your own site, or return nothing. Switchable at any time.
- Pro and above
- Analytics
- Links under your name use the same pipeline and the same rollups as everything else, so the dashboard treats them identically.
- Pro and above
Renewal and ownership
- Annual term
- Billed once a year rather than monthly, because a name is not a subscription you dip in and out of.
- All paid
- Renewal notice
- An email thirty days before the renewal date, not on the morning of it.
- All paid
- Grace period
- 30 days after a failed renewal during which your links keep resolving and the name cannot be taken.
- All paid
- Pool hold
- A premium name that is genuinely released is held out of the pool for a hundred and eighty days rather than being grabbed within seconds.
- All paid
Measured like everything else
Your namespace reports back.
Links under your name go through the same pipeline as any other link, so the dashboard does not treat them as a special case. Rollups rather than raw rows, which is what keeps it fast.
- Clicks per link
- And unique visitors
- Country and city
- Where they were
- Device
- Phone or desktop
- Referrer
- What sent them
Clicks across the namespace
Busiest links
Is this for me
Three people who needed the host to say something.
A broker sending links to strangers
Buyers were wary of clicking a link from an unknown number on a shared shortener domain.
The host now carries the agency name, and the click rate stopped being the problem.
A studio juggling twelve clients
One shared account and a spreadsheet tracking which link belonged to which client.
A name per client. Handover at the end of a retainer takes ten minutes.
A founder without a domain yet
The company name was decided, the domain purchase was not, and launch was in a week.
The name was live the same afternoon and they never got round to changing it.
Who claims one
Anyone whose name is worth more than the code.
The common thread is a link going to someone who has to decide, in about a second, whether it is safe to open.
Agencies
A name per client, kept separate, each with its own namespace and its own numbers.
Retail and D2C
Print your own name on the packaging instead of a shortener nobody recognises.
Creators
One name across the bio page, the card and every link in the caption.
Institutions
A namespace staff can post from and recipients can verify at a glance.
Straight comparison
Against a domain, and against doing nothing.
A subdomain here is not a replacement for owning a domain. It is what you use when you want your name in a link this week.
| Name on gc.mw | Your own domain | Shared shortener | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working in | Seconds | Hours to days | Seconds |
| DNS to configure | CNAME and TXT | ||
| Certificate | Handled | Handled once verified | Handled |
| Your name in the URL | |||
| Cost | $4.99 a year | Domain plus a plan | Free |
| Bio page included | Separate | ||
| Portable if you leave | Name stays with us | Domain is yours | Nothing is yours |
| Uncontested short words |
Own the domain if the brand is long term. Take a name here if you want it working today, or as well.
In practice
Why they claimed one.
“Buyers are cautious about links from a stranger. When the host says anchor, they click. That is the entire difference, and it cost less than a month of advertising.”
“Every event gets its own word under our name. No arguing with a global namespace about whether slash summer is still free.”
“We took the name before we had the domain sorted. It was live the same afternoon and we never got round to changing it.”
One story in full
Twelve clients, twelve namespaces, one dashboard.
“We used to keep a spreadsheet of which client owned which shortened link. Now each client has their own name, their own links and their own numbers. Handover at the end of a retainer takes ten minutes instead of a week.”
Underneath
One registry, and rules that do not move.
A name is only worth having if the rules around it are predictable. These are written down rather than decided case by case.
Reserved list is fixed
Platform subdomains are never sellable, so no name can be used to pretend to be us.
Grace before release
30 days after a failed renewal, and links keep resolving throughout.
Shared across products
One name, one owner, every product. No collisions between your card, your page and your links.
Same hot path
A link under your name is served by the same cached redirect as anything else.
Last 30 days
The awkward questions
Who controls the name, and what happens to it.
A name you cannot rely on keeping is not worth printing on anything.
One owner per name
A name belongs to one account. There is no shared claim and no queue to jump.
Renaming is reversible in practice
The old name redirects for a hundred and eighty days, so a rename never orphans printed material overnight.
Terms in writing
Renewal, grace and release are documented rather than decided in the moment when something goes wrong.
Account security
Two factor authentication and magic links on the account that holds the name, because the name is only as safe as the login.
Works with the rest of it
The name is not a silo.
Everything the shared host does, your namespace does too, with no separate setup.
Already have a domain
Take a name as well, not instead.
These are not alternatives. A domain is the long term brand asset and a name is what works this afternoon, and plenty of people run both.
- Claim the name todayIt resolves within seconds, with no DNS to configure and no certificate to wait for.
- Use it where speed mattersEvents, campaigns and anything printed this week, while the domain paperwork moves at its own pace.
- Add the custom domain when readyBusiness and Team include three. Add the two DNS records whenever the domain is actually yours.
- Keep both runningNothing forces you to choose. Links under either host use the same dashboard and the same analytics.
Pricing
The name is free. The subdomain is a year at a time.
Names of 5 characters or more cost nothing to claim. Shorter ones are priced by length, because there are only so many of them and they never come back.
Name
5 characters or more
- gc.mw/@yourname bio page
- Held while your account is active
- Works on the free plan
- Rename keeps the old one for 180 days
Subdomain
Most popularThe name on the host itself
- yourname.gc.mw resolves
- Your own link namespace
- Root shows your bio page or redirects
- 30 days grace on renewal
- Included on Pro and above
Short name
Four characters or fewer, or a listed word
- Four, three, two and one character names
- Listed dictionary words
- Priced by length, shown before you buy
- Two and one character names by enquiry
The subdomain is included on Pro and above. Bought on its own it is billed once a year, never monthly.
Which one am I
Answered as a sentence, not a matrix.
- You just want the handle before somebody else takes it
- Name, free
- Claiming costs nothing from 5 characters and gives you the bio page immediately. The subdomain can come later.
- You want the host itself to carry your name
- Subdomain
- $4.99 a year, or included if you are already on Pro. This is the part that makes the link read as yours.
- You want a short, memorable name
- Short name
- Four characters and under are priced by length from $19 a year. Two and one character names are handled by enquiry.
- You run names for several clients
- Business or Team
- Multiple names on one account with separate namespaces, and seats for the people who manage them.
Buy two, save 20%
The name is worth more with something behind it.
A subdomain with no links on it is an address with no house. Most people take a name alongside the shortener, or the card.
Before you ask
Questions people actually ask.
Is the name really free?
Names of 5 characters or more cost nothing to claim and are yours while the account is active. That gets you the bio page at gc.mw/@yourname. The subdomain surface, meaning yourname.gc.mw itself, needs Pro or the $4.99 a year product.
What is the difference between the name and the subdomain?
The name is the registry entry. The subdomain is one of the things it unlocks. Claim the name and you immediately have gc.mw/@yourname; add the subdomain and yourname.gc.mw starts resolving too, with your own link namespace under it.
Do I need to configure DNS?
No. The subdomain lives on our host, so there is nothing to add at a registrar and no certificate to wait for. That is the main practical difference between this and bringing your own domain, which does need two DNS records.
What if I stop paying?
There is a grace period of 30 days after a failed renewal, and your links keep resolving during it. We write to you thirty days before the renewal date rather than on the day. A premium name that is genuinely released is then held out of the pool for a hundred and eighty days.
Can I change my name later?
Yes. The previous name stays protected and redirects to the new one for a hundred and eighty days, so links and printed material you already shared do not break the same afternoon. Free plans can rename once every ninety days.
Why are short names priced?
There are fifty eight one character names and a few thousand three character ones, and none of them come back once claimed. Pricing by length is how they end up with people who will actually use them rather than with whoever scripted the fastest signup.
Can I use it as well as my own domain?
Yes, and plenty do. The subdomain works today; a custom domain takes two DNS records and a verification wait. Business and Team include three custom domains, and nothing stops you running both at once.
What can the name contain?
One to thirty characters of lowercase letters, digits, underscores and dots, starting and ending with a letter or digit. Reserved platform words such as app, api and www are refused so that no name can impersonate the platform.
Read first, buy later
Understand it before you pay for it.
Everything below is free to read and none of it needs an account.
What the bio page actually does
The page your name points at by default: blocks, links and a contact card people can save.
ProductSubdomain or your own domain
The two DNS records a custom domain needs, and why a name here works the same afternoon.
GlossaryThe vocabulary, defined
Redirect codes, UTM parameters, referrers and the rest, in plain words with the detail that matters in practice.
ComparisonsHow we compare
Side by side with the other shorteners and bio tools, with checked prices and a verdict rather than a shrug.
BlogGuides from the people who run it
Redirects, UTM tracking, QR for print and link safety, written from operating the thing rather than from a keyword list.
Everything else
Written up in more detail.
Find out if it is still free.
Names go in the order people ask for them. Checking costs nothing and takes about four seconds.
Free from 5 characters. $4.99 a year for the subdomain. 30 days of grace.