Addon Domains What exactly are they?

[mrdee 1]

Sorry if I should have read certain bits of the forum for an answer to my question, but I have looked and cannot seem to find it in the usual topics.I would like to find a bit more about domains, and especially addon ones.I see from my cpanel that you can have 9 parked domains and 9 addon domains.At the moment I am using 1 parked domain, which I use as an address for my website and email.I did it like that since that was the way I was advised to set up my domain.But, if that is the purpose a parked domain serves, then what are addon domains?Can you, just like with parked domains, point a browser to the domain name to send it to your web site? Or has it got another function? (BTW, sorry if I do not explain myself 100% technically correct, but I find it a bit difficult expressing this).And, taken from the fact you can have 9 of both kinds of domains at Trap 17, does that mean, if i had more than one domain name, I could make web sites under all those domain names, but would have to share my given web space (500 Mb) between them?Sorry if my question seems a bit stupid or if I don't explain matters properly, but these things are all a bit difficult to me, which is why i want to find out about them.Thanks.

[kobra500 1]

Think of an addon domain like a subdomain with a domainfor example http://www.example.com/ could be your parked domainand you have a subdomainsubdomain.example.com.With an addon domain you can make subdomain.com point towards subdomain.example.com

[Saint_Michael 3]

Kobra pretty much summed up what an add-on domain is, very useful if you bought out another website or merging websites that have the same content or merging several websites under one domain and then phasing out the others after a certain amount of time.

[mm22 0]

Think of an addon domain like a subdomain with a domain
for example

http://www.example.com/ could be your parked domain

and you have a subdomain

subdomain.example.com.

With an addon domain you can make subdomain.com point towards subdomain.example.com

so in the above example, what will I see in the browser URL? (www.)subdomain.com or subdomain.example.com?

in other words, let's say my current website hosted on Xisto is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and I register a new domain called http://www.newdomain.com/...'>http://www.newdomain.com/... will I be able to host this new domain on Xisto as addon domain in a way that the visitor is not aware of the fact the two websites are co-hosted? will the URL be http://www.newdomain.com/ or newdomain.mytrapwebsite.com

thanks!

[mm22 0]

in other words, let's say my current website hosted on Xisto is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and I register a new domain called http://www.newdomain.com/...'>http://www.newdomain.com/... will I be able to host this new domain on Xisto as addon domain in a way that the visitor is not aware of the fact the two websites are co-hosted? will the URL be http://www.newdomain.com/ or newdomain.mytrapwebsite.com

ok so after some research I now understand a bit more about addon domains, and I think I have already answered all my previous questions... yes the process is completely transparent to the web user who will see http://www.newdomain.com/ in the URL as if it were a stand-alone domain...

 

I've also read something about SEO issues, like "are search engines going to downgrade my domain and subdomain just because they share the same IP address?", many different opinions on that matter, anyone has some brilliant insight?