There are many types of domain in the internet world. Here I do not mean it as .com or .co.in or something like that. I come to say about Parked Domains, Sub-Domains, Add-on Domains and Redirects.
Parked Domain
Suppose, say you have two domain names like mydomain.com and my-domain.com. If you want the users to point to the same website from mydomain.com and my-domain.com, then this is the right choice for you, which means that when the users type mydomain.com or my-domain.com, DNS (Domain Name Server) will direct the user to the same website.
Try it: Everyone knows Google website. You just type www.google.com to access that website. Have you just tried www.gooogle.com or www.ggoogle.com? You may wonder that it all directs you to same page!
This is the use of Parked Domain.
Sub-Domain
An online company wants to have a forum website for its main website. Though the forum is needed for it, they do not buy another website for forum, instead they use the existing website as the link to it. In other words, sub-domain utilizes the existing domain name. Consider mycompany.com is a company's domain name, if it wants to add a forum page to its website and to be shown as a unique one, it just creates a sub-domain as: forum.mycompany.com. Its just the concept of replacing www with your own words.
Know it: forum.mycompany.com is a sub-domain and it also can be called from www.mycompany.com/forum
This is how the sub-domain can be used as a unique domain. Sub-domains are usually free and is most preferred in order not to change a domain.
Add-On Domain
It is like having two seperate domain names with different contents but with the same hosting account, which means your content is split in public_HTML folder inside your hosting account itself. Main account and Add-on account uses same bandwidth of the hosting account but different nameserver. Here the advantage is that add-on domain can be accessed either separately or can be accessed from you main account as :
addondomain.com
maindomain.com/addondomain
addondomain.maindomain.com
Redirects
This is different from those previously discussed domain types. Those domain names are dependent on your webhosting plan. But Redirect is the concept that you point out a website either to your blog or a social networking profile or even a website hosted in a different web server. Some redirects allow you to point out your IP address similar to the DNS address. The Redirecting server do not host your website or its contents rather it stores the URL that is to be redirected when the redirecting URL is entered in the address bar. Some services even allows masking of the real redirecting URL and displays their URL.
Parked Domain
Suppose, say you have two domain names like mydomain.com and my-domain.com. If you want the users to point to the same website from mydomain.com and my-domain.com, then this is the right choice for you, which means that when the users type mydomain.com or my-domain.com, DNS (Domain Name Server) will direct the user to the same website.
Try it: Everyone knows Google website. You just type www.google.com to access that website. Have you just tried www.gooogle.com or www.ggoogle.com? You may wonder that it all directs you to same page!
This is the use of Parked Domain.
Sub-Domain
An online company wants to have a forum website for its main website. Though the forum is needed for it, they do not buy another website for forum, instead they use the existing website as the link to it. In other words, sub-domain utilizes the existing domain name. Consider mycompany.com is a company's domain name, if it wants to add a forum page to its website and to be shown as a unique one, it just creates a sub-domain as: forum.mycompany.com. Its just the concept of replacing www with your own words.
Know it: forum.mycompany.com is a sub-domain and it also can be called from www.mycompany.com/forum
This is how the sub-domain can be used as a unique domain. Sub-domains are usually free and is most preferred in order not to change a domain.
Add-On Domain
It is like having two seperate domain names with different contents but with the same hosting account, which means your content is split in public_HTML folder inside your hosting account itself. Main account and Add-on account uses same bandwidth of the hosting account but different nameserver. Here the advantage is that add-on domain can be accessed either separately or can be accessed from you main account as :
addondomain.com
maindomain.com/addondomain
addondomain.maindomain.com
Redirects
This is different from those previously discussed domain types. Those domain names are dependent on your webhosting plan. But Redirect is the concept that you point out a website either to your blog or a social networking profile or even a website hosted in a different web server. Some redirects allow you to point out your IP address similar to the DNS address. The Redirecting server do not host your website or its contents rather it stores the URL that is to be redirected when the redirecting URL is entered in the address bar. Some services even allows masking of the real redirecting URL and displays their URL.
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