A sub-domain is a subdivision of a domain name. While domain names need to be registered with a Registrar, sub-domains are not and an unlimited number of sub-domains can be created through the DNS service. For example, a sub-domain news.yourdomain.com can be created on the domain name yourdomain.com.

Whois.com Pte Ltd allows you to create unlimited sub-domains with your Linux Web Hosting package, by adding a Star (*) Address (DNS) Record for your domain name through the DNS Service (that is included for free with your Web Hosting package). When a visitor reaches http://<sub-domain>.yourdomain.com, he is served the content from http://yourdomain.com/sub-domain/. Let's discuss this with a few examples:

• If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com in the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from http://yourdomain.com/news/.

  So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news within your website and have an index file (within this folder).

• If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com/php/ in the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from http://yourdomain.com/news/php/.

  So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news within your website and within that folder, a sub-folder called php with an index file (within php folder).

  Note

  If someone typed http://news.yourdomain.com/php (without the trailing forward slash), he would receive a Page not found error.

• If someone types http://news.yourdomain.com/weather-report.jpg in the browser, then our web server will try to fetch the content from http://yourdomain.com/news/weather-report.jpg.

  So you need to ensure that you have created a folder called news and have weather-report.jpg (within this folder).

• A sub-domain of the type http://php.news.yourdomain.com will not work, since it is not supported on Whois.com Pte Ltd's Hosting Servers.