What is an Addon Domain?
An addon domain is a new, separate domain on your account that let you apply accounts with various characteristics from a single control panel. Domain email addresses, forwarders, and other applications can be configured like other aspects of the main domain.
While creating an add-on domain, three things happen:
- The ‘public_html’ directory will create a folder.
- A subdomain is added to the primary domain and attached to the new folder.
- The relevant subdomain is associated with the new domain name.
For example, ‘example.com’ would be the primary domain, and you would set the addon domain ‘newdomain.com’ to the folder ‘newdomain’, so the following URLs would then be true::
- example.com/newdomain
- newdomain.example.com
- newdomain.com
Above all 3 of these links would access the directory containing the exact same webpage. However, in concern to your website’s viewers going to newdomain.com, there is no evidence that they are being routed through newdomain.example.com, and everything will function as normal.
This all happens when an Add-On domain is assigned to an account; nothing more is required besides loading content into the addon domain folder.
How to add an Addon Domain to cPanel?
Login to cPanel and type in the search bar “Addon Domain”, click here. Now addon domain section will appear.
Put your addon domain name and press the tab button from the keyboard, automatically create a subdomain, and click on “Add Domain”
What is a Parked Domain?
A parked domain, which is an alias of your main domain, points back to the same website as your principal domain. Multiple domains point to the same website.
For example, if website.com is the main website, you can link to website.org as a parked domain. If a potential customer were to go to website.org, they would see the same website as if they had typed website.com.
What is a Subdomain?
A subdomain is a section of your website that can function as a new website without a new top-level domain (TLD). Use subdomains to create memorable URLs that are unique for different sections of your site. For example, you can create a subdomain for your blog that can be accessed by blog.example.com and www.example.com/blog.