I signed up for yahoo web hosting.. yahoo tells me I have also 100 sub domains with my plan. I Don't really understand what a sub domain is and what it is used for. I tried different sites to get an answer but still don't fully understand. The example yahoo gives is info@mydomain.net. Is a sub domain like a e-mail address. To you pro's this may sound like a stupid question, but we all have to start at the beginning and I am eager to learn. I am sure some of you guys started out with a little bit of knowledge on these matters. Could someone please explain to me in plain english what a sub domain is and how I can use it for my website. Thanks you guys/gals
2006-12-08 11:43:45 · 5 answers · asked by thomashonecker 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
john.yourname.com
harry.yourname.com
lisa.yourname.com
those are subdomains.
2006-12-08 11:53:56 · answer #1 · answered by comn8u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sub domain gives a visitor direct access to a web page without going through the original homepage.
If you have a website called MyFamily.com the pages devoted to your son and daughter would look like:
OurSon.MyFamily.com and OurDaughter.MyFamily.com
However, you will have to direct visitors to the pages
originally called MyFamily.com/MySon.html and MyFamily.com/Mydaughter.html
Look under "redirect" in your webhosting pages. Sorry, but I've never done it in Yahoo, so I'm not sure what their procedure is, they use. The redirect takes about a day or so to be registered.
2006-12-08 20:01:58 · answer #2 · answered by bata4689 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A subdomain is a seperate area of your own domain. For example if you own mydomain.com your sub domains could be iown.mydomain.com news.mydomain.com yaddayadda.mydomain.com, forums.mydomain.com and the can be pointed to different areas of a web server or to do whatever you like with.
2006-12-08 19:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by traciatim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of sub domains like children in a family. You have the main domain, ie http://yahoo.com then you have sub domains like http://developer.yahoo.com or http://mail.yahoo.com
They are just easy ways to branch your website into different areas or in yahoo's case, different services.
2006-12-08 19:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by nuprn1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sub-domain...is like if you want to add someone else "www" address to your site.
2006-12-08 19:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋