What is Add on Domain, Multiple Domains, Domain Alias, Domain Parking ... ?

Despite all the different terms, they usually refer to just 2 cases. Lets say you are already hosting SiteA.com with a host and and you also have another domain SiteB.com

For Domain Alias/Parking/Pointing, SiteB.com will be identical to SiteA.com. They are actually the SAME site with 2 different names. The features chart in our directory is referring to this.

For Add-on Domain, SiteB.com and SiteA.com are actually 2 different sites. Your host simply sets a directory in your main account for SiteB.com. SiteB.com will share all resources (diskspace, bandwidth...) with your main site so you don't need another hosting account if you need to host another site.

The phase 'multiple domain' is confusing because it can refer to either case. For both cases, your 2nd domain might and might not have its own email address, i.e. me@siteb.com. It depends solely on your web hosts. For example, LunarPages allows you to create email accounts for both parked domains and add-on domains, while iPowerWeb does not.

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