subdomains and parked doamins, what's the difference

United States
March 10, 2008 2:21pm CST
While sorting through web hosts, some offer parked domains and some don't. What is the difference between parked domains and subdomains? If parked domains are not allowed does that mean I can't have an affiliates' link on my web site?
3 responses
justabloke
@justabloke (526)
• United States
10 Mar 08
I think you'll find that "parked" domains are where you buy a website name/domain and do not do anything with it. When someone accese the web page, it'll say a simple message, like "under construction". A "sub-domain" is where you take a domain name, like mylot.com and create another qualifier. For example. If mylot.com is the domain, a sub-domain would be mydomain.mylot.com. I hope that helps.
bradhart
@bradhart (659)
• United States
22 Apr 08
the best example of a subdomain is the www subdomain that most people type out of habit rather than the notion there could be something else there. In my opinion to many webmasters and network administrators fail to make good use of subdomains opting to shove everything into the www direcory because they are lazy.
imgcul
@imgcul (110)
• Taiwan
16 Jun 08
parked domain means this domain is parked on other domain, if you enter to parked domain, you will be bringten to other domain. subdomain means that it have a main domain.
rovian
@rovian (1924)
• United States
10 Mar 08
I have not heard the term parked domain before. Maybe it is something like your-name.com but I know them as just domains. Subdomains are your-name.host.com and is what I use.