What is a subdomain? How to use it? Godaddy Subdomain? What’s that?
How to create a Godaddy Subdomain? Lots of questions.
Need an answer. Right?
I will give the answers in this tutorial. Yes! Let’s start.
What is a subdomain?
A subdomain is a domain name that belongs to a main domain.
My Domain name is all-roundbd.com. Right?
Now, If I write blog.all-roundbd.com. It is a subdomain. Because it belongs to the main domain.
In another word, A Sub Domain is an Extra part of the Main domain That is placed right before the Main Domain all the time.
Subdomain example
What does a Sub Domain look like?
Blog.all-roundbd.com– It’s a Sub Domain!
Now, look at the following picture.
Ok. Is trends.google.com a Sub Domain? What’s your opinion? Is it?
ommm … ! Yes. It’s a Sub Domain.
Does godaddy allow sub domains?
Yes. It allows. You can create a Godaddy subdomain.
It’s easy to create. I will show you shortly.
Godaddy subdomain limit
Godaddy has limitation to creating subdomains.
You can create up to 500 subdomains belong to a Main Domain.
On other hosts, It may be unlimited. But on Godaddy it’s up to 500. You can’t exceed this limit.
Godaddy subdomain price
The price for a Godaddy Subdomain is totally free.
Yes. It’s free. You don’t need a penny even.
You just need to pay for your main domain. Not for any Subdomain. It’s totally free.
How to create subdomain in godaddy
It’s easy to create a Subdomain on Godaddy. To do So, First login to your Godaddy account.
After login, Click on your user name that situated at the top right corner of your browser.
Now find out your web hosting packages. Find your desired package in which you want to create your subdomain.
Find ‘Manage’ at the right, Click on it.
All domain names will be listed here within your hosting package.
Find ‘cPanel’ at the right top corner, and click on it.
Your cPanel Dashboard will appear. Scroll down and find “subdomains”.
Click on it.
The Subdomain registration page will appear. Three input fields have there.
In the first input box, write your subdomain name.
In my case, it will be “Blog”.
Because I want to name my subdomain as ‘Blog’. You will write your desired name.
In the second box, select in which domain your subdomain will belong to.
Your all domain name
And the last one. Select or type in which directory your subdomain’s files will remain.
You can select any directory and a new directory name.
Click on ‘create’.
And this was the end of the process. After hitting the ‘create button’ we created our desire subdomain.
Our newly created subdomain and its directory name will be listed like the below picture.
