What Is A Subdomain?
Hi there in this Article you'll learn what a subdomain is and how it's used a subdomain is a subset or smaller part of a larger domain to better understand the concept of subdomains what's the sector domain name from the top down a complete domain name include the top level domain or TLD and the second level domain or sld the TLD
is the part that occurs right after the last. In the domain name this is why tlds are sometimes called domain extensions in this example. Cam is the TLD while there are several types of TLC's the most common are. Com.org and.net dsld or second level domain is the part that occurs immediately in front of the last. In the domain name in this example it's the name of the business the sld is what makes a domain name unique now this part right here that's his place before the first. In the domain name it's the subdomain that's right fun fact ww.w is actually a subdomain the good news is you don't have to use
www for your sub domain instead you can replace it with almost any word to create a subdomain with a unique web address without having to purchase a new domain name subdue means function as an extension of a register domain name allowing you to send visitors to a different web address or allowing you to point to specific IP addresses or directories in you're Hosting account the most common use for subdomain is organizing
or dividing web content into distinct sections if your website has a substantial amount of content on a given topic or there's content on your website that you want to draw attention to see for marketing purposes you can create a subdomain for it a subdomain set this content apart from the main site and gives it a unique web address without having to register a new domain name consider the dog friendly Winery Molly's bark and wine during her first year
of business the owner has amassed a large photo collection of dogs to visit at the winery on her website to highlight the businesses unique dog friendly atmosphere and provide a dedicated space for her expanding photo gallery she creates the subdomain dogs under her register domain name Molly Parkin wine.com
the ww.w in her domain name is replaced with the word dogs and a new web address for the dedicated photo gallery is dogs. Marley's barking wine.com as an added bonus this subdomain is treated as a unique web address and in turn may drive new customers to her website also offer a great way to create language-specific versions
of a website or to accommodate information that may not be critical to the primary website such as an event page blog or store to recap a subdomain as a subset of a register domain name subdomains are most commonly used to divide websites into distinct sections that have unique web addresses
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