Sub domain

• Lets say your domain is mysite.com.

• You install a Message Board and put in in a directory called mysite.com/board/.

• You can turn the directory board into a sub-domain by adding it as a sub-domain from your Control Panel.

• Now you can access your Message board as either mysite.com/board OR board.mysite.com

• This costs you nothing and is free.

Parked Domain

• You have two domains mysite.com and my-other-site.com.

• mysite.com is the domain of your website and you want to add my- other-site.com.

• You want them both to go to the same place. In other words, when someone types either www.mysite.com or www.my-other-site.com they will go to the same page(s) on your website.

• In order to have additional parked domains you need to purchase the additional domain(s).

Add-On Domains

• You have two domains mysite.com and my-other-site.com.

• You want the two domains to be totally separate/independent websites.

• In order to have additional parked domains you need to purchase the additional domain(s).

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