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Active Oldest Votes. You need a system to: Handle purchases and credit card transactions Handle renewals of intervals on your chosen timeline A web-interface to your DNS nameservers so the user can manipulate their own records and, most importantly, you need a really, really good lawyer to do you an iron-clad terms of service when you're purchasing, because nomatter what you say, YOU still own the primary domain, which means that YOU still own the subdomains.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Mark Henderson Mark Henderson You should provide different types of services: Easiest would be just allow to delegate domain to own nameservers, then you will be adding IN NS records for user subdomains and that's it. The Overflow Blog. Companies use subdomains for a variety of reasons. You can actually install a program like WordPress on your subdomain and use it as a completely separate entity from your main website.
You can also test your updates and plugins on your subdomain to see how they perform before you publish them to your live site. You can create a subdomain that is specifically intended for them to give an idea of what their new website might look like. This is hosted on your own main domain, while retaining ownership of the subdomain.
Another example is if a restaurant group opens a new location. You can then add the new restaurant to the parent site, and create a web page for the new location. This keeps the new restaurant under your overall umbrella, while giving it its own online identity. There might be times when you need your web content to appeal to different types of users. For instance, if you have a lot of international visitors, you may need to translate your website into different languages.
If so, you can create subdomains of your website so users can browse in their native language. Sometimes, you may also need to cater your web content to different regions. The best example of this is Craigslist, which has separate subdomains for different regions.
The websites are optimized for each specific region, but are all hosted on a master domain. It can sometimes be a good idea to break your blog off from your main site onto a subdomain. Maybe your blog following has grown and is slowing down your main site, or maybe because you want to switch up your blog design. You can also change your blog to a different CMS. But overall, you might want to move your blog because it serves a different purpose than your main domain. Depending on what your main domain does, it might make sense to move your blog to a subdomain so they can exist separately, while still being tied together under your main domain.
Likewise, you may want to get your ecommerce page off of your main domain for the same sort of reasons. The goal of your main site may not be to make sales, and if you have a lot of traffic, or tons of products, it can slow down your pages, creating a poor user experience. Switching to a subdomain helps things move more smoothly and make your ecommerce site more accessible to your customers.
A subdomain can also be utilized to provide a more mobile-friendly experience for your site visitors. Search engines like Google can recognize the type of device a searcher is using, and will serve the version of your website that gives them the best user experience. You can create separate versions of your website that cater to mobile, and even more specifically, to each screen size.
Each of these different layouts have their own specific subdomain. Subdirectories are another similar form of subfolders that can be used as extensions of your main root domain. While a subdomain typically comes before the main domain in your URL, a subdirectory would come after.
Using our earlier example, isellrefrigerators. Department, Shoe. The gTLD's have laid that groundwork and I can go toe to toe with them selling wise and make my case and then the consumer or end user gets to decide.
And yeah, it won't work for all your domains, but if you picked well over the years, then it should work for enough of them. We all get to choose how we spend and invest our time. This is my choice for the future and hopefully I will demonstrate why. And eventually the base domain like tradeshows. Free traffic for life. Sub domains in the new extensions work and look much better. Or am I wrong? Even CentralNIC is public trading company, they do not publish stats.
When I asked them for such information, how many names are registered under each of their names, they refused to publish it. They behave as private company, keeping secrets out of pubic for some reason. Probably because it is not so good, Otherwise they would show those stats. May be for fewer names in that category, but it will. If you really think that your idea is cool, then rather than wasting your money, just go bid for these GTLDs and start the game.
Do not think that this is There is who new world out, in last 20 years and some of them are very smart.. Or maybe a domain like airport. While good in theory trust us, we tried it , the end customer will be your typical small business consumer who still needs to be sold on why the domain name is key, let alone why this variance is a better alternative to thevegastradeshows. To reach this customer you must be in their face when they are looking to make their buying decision.
Thus, you need distribution via existing registrars. And unfortunately with a direct distribution model, the cost of sales out paces revenue if you have to educate each of your customers on the other benefits that Vegas.
Take it for what it worth, just the opinion of someone who lived and breathed this model before pivoting 1. What if the domain owner gets an offer for the name and decides to sell? Is there an implied open ended contract on the subdomains? What if someone gets banned from Adsense on the subdomain?
Will the entire name be blacklisted or devalued? Bad idea imo. So, a competitor could lease a sub on the same domain just think about this or a sub domain leaser can apply spammy seo tactics and drag down any other site on the same domain in a Google penalty.
If everyone is hip to reading levels, they have no reason to use. For example, nobody would use best. Too many problems a few of which are listed above. Vanity email address based on a domain name have the same problems. Thank You million again, for your great work helping the others.
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