{"id":2339,"date":"2020-06-10T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=2339"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:33:54","slug":"addon-parked-sub-domain-differences","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/addon-parked-sub-domain-differences","title":{"rendered":"Domain 3 Powerful Tips to Understand Add-On, Parked, and Sub"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Difference Between Add-on, Parked Domain and Sub-domain<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servermania.com\/images\/w_750,h_300,c_scale\/f_webp,q_auto:best\/v1681842762\/blog\/Rectangle-2\/Rectangle-2.png?_i=AA\" alt=\"Add-on Parked and Sub-domain\" width=\"750\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Sub domain<\/u><\/p>\n<p>A sub-do-main is a second website with its own unique content, but there is no new domain name.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s say your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/sub-domain\/\">Sub domain<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0<em>com<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>You install an E-Commerce and put in a directory called<em>com\/<u>commerce\/<\/u><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>You can turn the directory\u00a0<em>commerce into a sub-domain by<br \/>\nadding it as a sub-domain from your Control Panel.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Now you can access your E-Commerce as either\u00a0<em>com\/<u>commerce\u00a0<\/u><\/em>OR <em><u>commerce.domain.com<\/u><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Parked Domain<\/u><\/p>\n<p>A parked<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>domain is NOT a unique website, but it is a masked forward to the primary domain name of your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have several domains\u00a0<em>com<\/em>,<em>domain.org<\/em>,<em> domain.biz,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>domain.net<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>com\u00a0<\/em>is the domain of your website and you<br \/>\nwant to add\u00a0<em>domain.org, domain.biz, and domain.net.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You want them both to go to the\u00a0same place. In other words, when<br \/>\nsomeone types either\u00a0<em>com<\/em>,<em>domain.org<\/em>,<em>domain.biz\u00a0<\/em>or<em>\u00a0domain.net<\/em>\u00a0they will go to the\u00a0same\u00a0page(s) on your<br \/>\nwebsite.<\/li>\n<li>In order to have additional parked domains you need to purchase the<br \/>\nadditional domain(s).<\/li>\n<li>Domain parking\u00a0is the registration of an\u00a0Internet\u00a0domain name\u00a0without that domain being associated with any services such as\u00a0e-mail\u00a0or a\u00a0website.<\/li>\n<li>This may have been done with a view to reserving the domain name for future development, and to protect against the possibility of cybersquatting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Add-On Domains (Only for Linux Hosting Plan)\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>An addon<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>domain is a second website, with its own unique content. This type of domain does require you to register the new domain name before you can host it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have two domain\u00a0<em>com\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0addondomain.com<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>You want the two domain to be totally separate\/independent<\/li>\n<li>In order to have additional add-on domain, you need to purchase the<br \/>\nadditional domain(s).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/beginners-guide\/whats-the-difference-between-domain-name-and-web-hosting-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">whats the difference between the domain name and web hosting explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difference Between Add-on, Parked Domain and Sub-domain &nbsp; Sub domain A sub-do-main is a second website with its own unique content, but there is no new domain name. Let\u2019s say your\u00a0Sub domain\u00a0is\u00a0com. You install an E-Commerce and put in a directory calledcom\/commerce\/. You can turn the directory\u00a0commerce into a sub-domain by adding it as a sub-domain from your Control Panel.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[11],"kbtag":[1254,1256,1255],"class_list":["post-2339","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-general-email","kbtag-add-on-domain","kbtag-parked-domain","kbtag-sub-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2339\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}