I am very new to the area of websites and website design. I am just now venturing into the world, and I feel completely lost on what I'm doing. I have so many questions, but I will try to post them separately. Please bare with me, as I know I am perhaps asking the most basic of questions. For starters, I am interested in starting a business with a website for my business. I already have a domain for it, and now I just need to actually get my hands dirty on building the site. However, I am also interested in assigning a second domain to the same site. For example, i want both myname.com and mybusiness.com to lead to the same page. If I already purchased myname.com, would I need to also purchase a new domain for mybusiness.com? Would mybusiness.com be an addon domain? What is the difference exactly? Furthermore, if I want to start a small project completely unrelated to my business and would just like to have a domain just for this small project, would I also need to buy a new domain/addon domain? Thanks for any feedback. I would really appreciate some clarity. =)
When you purchase the first domain and host it with your hosting account, that domain becomes the "root" domain of which you can use to access your hosting account etc. I personally use my "root / master" domain for my primary business but that is optional of course. People can do whatever they want with their domains. If you purchase another domain (s), and you want to put those domains at the same hosting with your root domain, we call those domains the addons. Basically addon domains are domains that being installed within the root domain so you can forget it or let it expired if you are not using it anymore. Addons can be use for landing pages, client's site, testing sites etc.
Thanks for your reply Henry. Does this mean that each addon domain needs to be purchased just like the "root domain"?