What is an Addon Domain

An addon domain is the option used to host different, additional domains on one hosting account each with their own distinct content and upload location (HTDOCS) folder.

From an end user perspective, an addon domain functions like any other domain in that the site acts and is essentially, completely separate from another site and in effect is completely unique.

Before you can add a domain to your hosting account you must first change the nameservers of the domain via your domain registrar control panel to:

ns1.YOURDOMAIN.com
ns2.YOURDOMAIN.com

What is a Sub-domain

You can call it a domain within a domain, a site within a site but basically it is a site that is separate yet shares the same domain as one or more sites. For example, sub.example.com is a sub-domain of example.com.

Your main HTDOCS folder on our service is a sub-domain of our domain, in fact you are permitted to add many sub-domains via your hosting control panel not only of our domain but also of a variety of other domains we license at no cost to you.


What is a Parked Domain

Think of Parked Domains as another way to reach an existing site, for instance you are at home, you have a cellular phone and home phone, on one number I call I reach your cellphone and you, on the other I reach your home phone and you. Either way I call, I will reach you. The same can be said for Parked Domains, many domains or telephone numbers to reach one site. Your site can be loaded without any knowledge of the true sub-domain user.example.com if you park example.net on top of it and only reference and use example.net in your site and literature.

From the perspective of a webmaster, the difference between Parked and Addon Domains is simply this, with Addon Domains, you build a completely separate site, with Parked Domains, it is already built, you just are giving it a new telephone number for the site it is parked on.

As with Addon Domains you must change the nameservers in your domain registrar control panel first prior to :

ns1.YOURDOMAIN.com
ns2.YOURDOMAIN.com