Parked Domain, Add-on Domain and Sub domain
Mar 22nd, 2009 by dipankar
Most of us, who is very new to web hosting, confused about these three terms sub domains, add-on domain and parked domains. But these things are important for web hosting. Now I am trying to explain what actually they are.
Addon Domain: An add-on domain is just like having a separate web site. The add-on domain will be hosted or pointed to a folder in your public_html folder of your main-domain. The Add-on domain should be already registered and the nameservers for the add-on domain should be pointing the same nameserves as your main-domain. Accessing the addondomain will display that very domain name in the address bar of their browser, so its similar to a separate web site. An add-on domain uses the space and bandwidth available to the main domain. An add-on domain will have its own CGI and FTP access, its own email accounts and web stats.
To add an add-on domain to your account:
1) login to your cPanel
2) go to the “Domains” menu and click “Addon Domains”
3) next put the details of your new domain and click add Domain button.
And you have successfully added your addon domain for your website.
Parked Domain: A parked domain is one which simply points to an existing domain. It is an other domain which is parked on to the main domain. Consider a domain “parked.com” which is parked on the “yourdomain.com”. If we access parked.com it will be directed to the yourdomain.com and you will get the same page as you see while accessing yourdomain.com. The parked domain should also point to the same nameservers as the main-domain.com. The park domain name should be registered. To add a parked domain to your account:
1) login to your cPanel
2) go to the “Domains” menu and click “Parked Domains”
3) Add your new domain.
Domains must be registered with a valid registrar before they can be parked. In addition, they will not be functional unless they are configured to point to your DNS servers.
Sub Domain: A sub domain utilises the existing main domain name. It does not have its own domain name. A sub domain points to a folder in your public_html directory of your main-domain. Consider you main domain ” yourname.com” and you have a folder “shop” under your public_html directory. You can create a sub domain “shop.yourname.com”. You can directly reach the shop page by accessing “shop.yourname.com”. You might have seen “mail.yahoo.com”, ” mail.google.com”. These are sub domains for yahoo.com and google.com.
To add a sub domain to your account:
1) login to your cPanel
2) go to the “Domains” menu and click “Subdomains”
3) give your subdomain name. e.g. shop
4) give the document root. i.e. the name of the folder under your public_html directory.
5) click “Create” button to create the subdomain.