Parked Domain Name to addon domain - possible?

[sprint66]

Say I have an addon domain www. maindomain.com/addondomain (www. addondomain.com), and I want www. addondomain2.com to point to www. addondomain.com. Whats the easiest/best way of doing it?

[eUKhost.com]

You will need to contact us to do so. Only we can add a parked domain on a subdomain or addon domain. You wont be able to do so.

[hairyfreak]

In some cases you are able to set up domain forwarding/parking from your domain registrar. I'm not sure about the plans here as I don't yet have an account, but some allow you to create parked domains from cPanel.

The easiest way, if you are unsure, would be to contact support staff firstly at your registrar to see if they are able to help. If not, contacting your host should be your second action.

[sprint66]

Yeah, my domain registrar was able to do it in the end.

[hairyfreak]

Ah, wonderful. Good to see that you got it sorted out in the end.

If you don't mind me asking, who is your current domain registrar? I've been away for just over a year so the domains I had registered are now expired. At the time, however, I was using DomainSite and found them to be excellent, but I'm not too sure if now there are better services out there.

Thanks for your time.

[sprint66]

I use 123reg. I did at one point transfer them away from 123 reg to my last hosting company, but that was more hassle than it was worth. I just thought it would be easy to look after them. After my last hosting co screwed me around I moved them all back to 123reg, never had any problems with them.

[avatari]

sorry, I'm not very clued-up on the technical side so this is probably going to sound stupid: eukhost, which is better? To park a domain on an addon domain at eukhost or just point the new domain to the addon domain from the new domain registrar's end? Will it affect control or serp rankings which way you do it?

[DPS Computing]

It's probably easier to do it from this end via cPanel I would imagine.

[avatari]

david,

eukhost's said that this can't be done via cpanel: only they can authorise a parked domain on a subdomain or addon domain.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by avatari

sorry, I'm not very clued-up on the technical side so this is probably going to sound stupid: eukhost, which is better? To park a domain on an addon domain at eukhost or just point the new domain to the addon domain from the new domain registrar's end? Will it affect control or serp rankings which way you do it?

Redirect wont be a better option. Its better to have some sort of text on a webpage assigned to a particular domain. getting 100 domains parked on a particular domain will never benefit any of those 100 domains.

If you are mainly focussed on Search Engine part then you should take a look at http://blog.eukhost.com/category/seo-tutorials/ . Our Marketing team has added some good information in it which you wont find anywhere else.

[avatari]

thanks - so the best bet is with a country level domain is to park it on the .com. If the .com is with you as an add-on domain, you'd have to set this up for me? All i'd have to do is just point the nameservers from my registrar user panel for the new domain to be parked, to the shared IP address on your server that is linked to my 'main' site?

I'm not talking about parking lots of domains on one website, just a .co.uk to park on a .com, in order to benefit from geographic searches.

[eUKhost.com]

you need to point your .co.uk domain to the nameservers of .com domain. You can find existing nameservers of your domain name from dnsreport.com

once you point the nameservers then login to your control panel after 6 - 12 hours and add your .co.uk domain as a parked domain from the control panel.

that's all. you don't need to do anything else.

[avatari]

that's great, many thanks, that answers my question nicely