Sub Domains

[Jayne]

Hi

Been getting a bit muddled (yes again :D ), been reading about domains.

What is the difference between a add on domain, a parked domain and a sub domain.

Thanks

Jayne :D

[MinuWeb]

a subdomain would be something like shop.jayne.com

a parked domain would be shop.com that when parked on shop.jayne.com would open up shop.jayne.com under the name shop.com, it could also be jayne.org, .net, .info etc parked on top of jayne.com so whatever extension is typed in it would open up the files in jayne.com.

an addon domain is similar to a parked domain except that it would be a domain in it's own right, that would operate from a specified directory, basically just sharing the space of the master account

[Jayne]

No none of that went in, you sounded just like the stuff I read in google search :lol:

Thanks anyway Tony, i'll read it again in the morning, may make sence then :D

Jayne

[stagetec]

Basically a domain is the web site name i.e. www.jayne.com.

Once you have registered a domain you have several things you can do with it:

1. Set up a web site that the domain name always links to.
2. Divert it (or park it) to another domain. The idea of this is that you can register lots of different domain names that are similar to what your business does, something like www.jayne.com, www.jayne.co.uk, www.jayne.eu.com - you might want to register these to stop other people getting them (and potentially stealing some of your business) or to make sure you come up high in the search engines, but when people go to any of these domain names it always comes up with your web site.
3. Lastly you might have several different areas within your business and you want to divide these into sub domains to directly access each of these different areas, but still have the main site that encompasses everything. So you have www.jayne.com as your main site, then you have www.jayneshop.com to take people directly to your web store and then www.jaynerental.com and www.jaynesales.com.

These are all ways of promoting what you do on the search engines more effectively.

Does this make more sense?

Andy

[Rob Holmes]

Jayne,

'Sub' means below. e.g sub-zero, sub-marine, sub-standard etc etc.

so an example of how a sub-domain looks as a website address is www.test.bowbiz.co.uk - the 'test' part being the 'sub' domain. If you look at it is like a seperate domain 'below' the main domain

In effect if you create a subdomain it is a seperate area of hosting space within your current hosting space.

Sometimes things are easier to explain over the phone - I'm sure your host would chat this through with you.

Rob

[Jayne]

Hi,

I get 99% of it now, thank you. I'm working on the 1%, sure it will catch up soon :D

Jayne

[easy]

Is this my fault for suggesting a sub-domain in the first place? lol