A domain name is your website’s address on the internet where people can access your website. It is something that internet users type in the browser’s URL bar to visit your site.
A domain name is not something physical that you can touch or see. It is a string of characters that gives your website an identity. Examples of domain names: Google.com, Alexa.com, Linux.org, eLearningEuropa.info, as well as abijita.com
All domain names are unique. This means there can be only one google.com in the world. You cannot register a name once it is registered by others (governed by ICANN).
If you are new to hosting, sometimes it can get confusing when accessing your control panel and presented with Subdomains, Addon Domains, and Parked Domains options. In this article, you’ll have a brief and easy-to-understand comparison among these three options found in your Hosting Account Manager.
What is an Addon Domain?
An addon domain is a fully functional domain that can be created from within your control panel. This addon domain is a new, unique website hosted in a new folder on your account so that you can host several domains from one control panel. You can give an addon domain email addresses, forwarders, and more in the same way as a primary (main) domain on the account.
What is a Parked Domain?
A parked domain is an alias of your primary domain — it points to the same website as your primary domain. Multiple domains, same website.
For example, if cars.com is your main website, you can purchase cars.net and assign it as a parked domain. If a visitor were to go to cars.net, they would see the same website as if they had typed cars.com.
In other words, both primarydomain.com/index.htm and parkeddomain.com/index.htm will point to the same webpage, “index.htm.”
What is a Subdomain?
A subdomain is a prefix added to your original domain name, like a domain within a domain, usually following the form subdomain.example.com. They behave very similarly to an addon domain and are often created to separate your website’s different sections, such as blog.example.com or store.example.com.
