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« on: February 28, 2007, 01:37:18 PM » |
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Hello (again!) Once again I'm confused!  I'd like to create a website but I'm confused about the differences between sub domains, addon domains and parked domains. Let's say I buy home.com and also want to buy homes.com and holmes.com just in case someone spells the name incorrectly. Is homes.com and holmes.com addons? Would these go in the public_html folder What if I wanted to buy garden.com, gardens.com and gardin.com so I could expand imy home.com site n the future? Am I making any sense? (I read the previous post re: sugarisland.com as a subdomain but it didn't clear things up). Thanks. |
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mxgirl
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 02:12:10 PM » |
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Ok- read the FAQ and it looks like I want parked domains.
I just don't want to screw things up. I finally got my non-profit site up and want to create an ecommerce site now. Thanks for the info.
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MrPhil
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 03:22:36 PM » |
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You could have homes.com and holmes.com as Parked Domains. They would simply point to home.com (your primary domain). If you had garden.com and its sound-alikes as parked domains, they would point to home.com too. (I'm assuming that all parked domains must point to the primary, rather than an add-on or subdomain. I could be wrong...) - primary domain e.g., home.com. Its root (/) is public_html/. One per account.
- add-on domain e.g., garden.com. Its root (/) is public_html/garden/. Up to 10 per account (maybe more for a fee?). A user sees only garden.com and is unaware that they're on the same account as home.com. The file trees are completely separate from the primary, other add-ons, and subdomains.
- subdomain e.g., sugarisland.home.com. Its root (/) is public_html/sugarisland/. Unlimited per account. The file trees are completely separate from the primary, add-ons, and other subdomains. Users are fully aware that they're on a subdivision of the primary domain.
- parked domain e.g., homes.com.
Merely an alias for the primary domain (home.com). A user should see that they're actually on the primary domain. It depends on what your domain registrar means by "parked". If you register with LP (actually Tucows), it will be an alias for your primary domain. You will see that (parked) domain name in the browser address bar while viewing your primary domain site. Other registrars call a domain just pointed to their own "Coming Soon!" page "parked". Others may label a "forwarded" domain as "parked". In this case, you will see the primary domain in the browser address bar.
Get ready for nasty weather Thursday night through Friday night, mxgirl! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2007, 04:40:26 PM » |
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I just read the 'can I have a subdomain for addon domain' thread - what'r you guys talkin' about?? Anyway, my question is this - I had several choices for a domain names for my website but most of them were taken already when I went to sign up with LP. I ended up with planetholeshot.com and that's what my LP Basic Plan is registered to. I've since come up with a couple of better domain names that I'd like to use instead of planetholeshot. If I purchase another name i.e., throttlejockey.com and add it as an addon, when someone types in www.throttlejockey.com, will it go to my www.planetholeshot site? |
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RandyT
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2007, 04:47:45 PM » |
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Do you want throttlejockey.com to resolve to planetholeshot.com ? If yes, then you would add throttlejockey.com as a parked domain since all parked domains resolve to the primary on the account. If you want throttlejockey.com to act as a separate website then add it as an add on domain which creates a separate folder with separate content. If you add it as an add on domain and want it to resolve to your primary you would have to do a mod_rewrite redirect function to make that happen. I hope I have not confused you further  Feel free to ask any more questions you may have. RandyT |
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MrPhil
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2007, 04:57:26 PM » |
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Do you want throttlejockey.com to resolve to planetholeshot.com ? If yes, then you would add throttlejockey.com as a parked domain since all parked domains resolve to the primary on the account.
Be aware that a parked domain, while acting as an alias for the primary domain, will display the primary domain URL in the browser's window. If planetholeshot.com is your primary, and throttlejockey.com is parked, someone going into http://throttlejockey.com will see http://planetholeshot.com displayed on their browser! I doubt anything can be done about that through a Rewrite... maybe it could (or maybe it would cause a loop). Anyone know? ADD: see correction in previous post re: parked domain. |
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RandyT
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2007, 05:27:15 PM » |
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Mr. Phil, that is not quite correct:
A parked domain will resolve to the same content as your primary domain name.
Say your primary is blah.com and you park bleh.com
In the address bar if you type bleh.com it will resolve to blah.com but in the address bar you will see bleh.com. This is a parked domain.
I hope this helps,
RandyT
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MrPhil
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2007, 05:48:17 PM » |
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Say your primary is blah.com and you park bleh.com
In the address bar if you type bleh.com it will resolve to blah.com but in the address bar you will see bleh.com. This is a parked domain.
That may apply to parked domains registered through LP (Tucows), but not necessarily to externally registered and parked domains. I have primary blah.com and parked bleh.com, both at another registrar. When I type in http://bleh.com, what shows in my browser is http://blah.com. My parked domain does not point to an LP nameserver, so parking is apparently handled by my registrar. The moral is: externally registered parked domains may not behave like internally (LP) registered parked domains. User beware that if your primary domain is something you don't want seen by visitors, in some circumstances it could be seen. So, if it happens that the primary domain name ( blah.com) is what shows up in the browser address bar, is it possible to Rewrite blah.com to bleh.com without breaking the system? |
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2007, 05:57:45 PM » |
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If you arrange the 'parking' via your domain registrar then they use something different to a parked domain the way cPanel does it. A parked domain in cPanel means you have multiple domain names that point to the same content. This is done via virtual hosts in apache and is transparent to the website visitor. All your registrar can do is setup redirects or frames.
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2007, 06:09:50 PM » |
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That's interesting Mr. Phil. Thanks for posting your experience with parked domains not registered thru us here. Either way a rewrite would clear that up  Also thanks Nibbler for that info RandyT |
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mxgirl
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« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2007, 06:30:41 AM » |
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I hope I have not confused you further I don't think that's possible!!!!  No, really - I don't feel all that stupid as there seem to be quite a few questions about domain names between addons. htaccess, etc. Using examples i.e., blah/bleh or throttlejockey/ planetholeshot helps to clear things up for us luddites! My thanks to all. |
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