Wed 16 Aug 2006
What is Subdomain
In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain name. Subdomains are separated by dots “.” and we can access them as sudomain.maindomain.com or domain.com/subdomain and are read from left to right.
Popular real-life examples of subdomains include news.google.com, mail.yahoo.com, in which news, mail and en are subdomains, respectively.
Eg. blog.webhosting.uk.com
What is Parked domain
Domain pointers allow you to point or park additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This will allow users to also reach your website when entering the parked or pointed domain into their browsers.
For example: if you park domain102.com at your hosting account for domain101.com, users visiting domain2.com will see the contents of domain1.com web page.
In simple way you can access one website with two different names.
What is Addon domain
Addon domains allow you to host more than one unique website (such that have different content) on your hosting account.
Example: domain101.com is the domain name you have signed up for. Then you decide to host another unique website, reached at domain102.com on the same account. That is when you need an addon domain.
Tuks
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December 19th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Hi Tuks,
Your post is very easy to understand
thanks.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 am
Domain names are being snapped up all the time so if you have thought of a cool domain name for a future project then it might be wise to register it now. There is a chance that if you leave it too late someone else may register it. While your planning your site you can park the domain name.
Domain parking is a process where you register a domain and do not enter the domain name servers of your hosting company. Usually the domain registrar will park your domain by default on their server, this means that if you type your domain name into a web browser you will arrive at a default page provided by the registrar.
If you are going to hold onto the domain for a while or not develop a site straight away then you may want to consider a domain parking service that offers you revenue from your parked domain. Domain parking services such as Traffic parking and sedo offer revenue sharing from your parked domain.
Revenue sharing from a parked domain works by traffic being directed to a search page or pay per click page where any visitors to your parked domain may click on the ads and you receive a percentage of the revenue from this.
Traffic parking claims that a parked domain receives on average 8 hits per month but a popular domain name may get thousands of visitors due to direct type ins and miss typed domains. Unless you have a popular domain name it probably isn’t worth the effort to use a revenue sharing parking service and just use your registrars default parking page.
So domain parking is a process where you register a domain and leave it until you are ready to use it. You may or may not have a parking page where any stray visitors will see a default host parking page or if you use a domain parking service an ad targeted page.
Kerr is the webmaster at more info herewhere you can find out all about Domain names.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I think the best place to park your domains are here
October 26th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Can anyone provide a list of domain parking companies located in England, or EU who pay for traffic to parked domains?
FRom whom (which search engines/ advertisers) do these EU based parking companies get paid for traffic? Many thanks