Domain names are a key component to a web company. Domain names convert the numerical plan that computers use to identify a website into a text based name that is easy for human users to understand and remember.

 Add-On Domain

 Once you have a website up and running, you may want to launch other websites. The default way to do it is to register new domain names and open new hosting accounts. However, opening new hosting accounts can be expensive, especially if you still have plenty of free space and bandwidth available in your original account. Fortunately, it is possible to share the web space and bandwidth of your original account among different sites.

 An add-on domain is a new domain name that points to a subdirectory within your existing domain hosting account, where the website for the new domain will reside. Add-on domains must be registered domain names that you own, and that are configured to point to your web host's servers.

An add-on domain functions just like any other domain. For example, if you already have a hosting account under www.main-domain.com, you can register and set up an add-on domain for example: www.add-on-domain.com, so that when your visitors type "http://www.add-on-domain.com" in their browser, they will be transported to the new site.

The advantage of add-on domains is that the browser's address bar will show "http://www.add-on-domain.com", so the process will be totally transparent to your users. If your users navigate to another page, their browser will accordingly show http://www.add-on-domain.com/anotherpage.html.

Many web hosts now offer to set-up add-on domains for free. This is only fair, since you are not getting any more web space or bandwidth. Others, however, will charge you a modest one time fee, which is not bad, especially when the cost of registering the new domain is included. Finally, some web hosts will charge you a monthly fee for each add-on domain you set up. In some cases, that fee can be very close to the monthly cost of your web hosting account, to the point that it is better to just open a new hosting account for the new domain. If you plan to set up add-on domains in the future, you're better off avoiding this kind of account. Furthermore, please not that we are not providing the Add-on domain feature.