Posted by Dan on 07/29/06 13:58

Hoopster wrote:
> If I have a regular host and creat a sub-demain, is it possible to
> have the sub-domain resolved the the regular name ie;
> www.yahoo.mydomain.com to www.yahoo.com?

Sure, if your hosting provider makes this functionality available, you
can set up server redirects (e.g., with Apache .htaccess files or
through your host's control panel) to make your subdomain addresses
redirect to any other Web site you want, whether it's the parent domain
of the subdomain or a third-party site. You do realize, however, that
"www.yahoo.mydomain.com" is not a subdomain of "www.yahoo.com"; those
are totally different domains with no relationship. In
"www.yahoo.mydomain.com", the fourth level domain is "www", which is a
subdomain of the third level domain "yahoo", which is a subdomain of
the second level domain "mydomain", which is a subdomain of the top
level domain "com". On the other hand, in "www.yahoo.com", "www" is a
subdomain of "yahoo" which is a subdomain of "com", so the only
commonality is that they are both in the ".com" TLD.

--
Dan

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