When you rent a hosting space, you will most probably presented with hosting jargon or terms that you don’t understand. Today we will explore the meaning of “Parked Domains” and “Addon Domains” terms used in shared hosting.

Parked Domain

This is the most popular ‘addon’ feature offered in a web hosting package. Parked Domains means that your website can be accessed by two different domains, but with the same content.
Example :

Let’s say that you have example.com as a domain name. But at the same time you don’t want other people to register example.net as use it for their own websites, confusing your users.

What you can do is, registers example.net, and ‘parked’ it at your webhosting, so that when users surfed to example.net, they will be presented with the same website as example.com.

Summary :

Parked Domains lets you point multiples domain names to the same website.

Addon Domains

Addon domains is another value added features offered by common shared hosting provider. Like Parked Domains, Addon Domain lets you add another domain name to your hosting account.

But unlike Parked Domain, you can use the domain name to host another website.

Example :

You have a domain name called example.com that’s about selling mp3 players and stuff for audiophiles.

You may then decided to have another not-for-profit website that is informational nature, called example.org . All you need to do is ‘add on’ example.org domain to your hosting, and you will have another website

Summary :

Add on Domains lets you host more than one domain name on a hosting account, each can have their own space and website, as if you own multiple hosting account.

So in short, Addon Domain offer is more valueable than Parked domains, since you can have multiple website with multiple domain names with Addon Domains using only one hosting account.

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