What is a subdomain name?
When you have a web hosting company such as Host Your Site set up your domain name, mydomain.com so that it can be accessed through a browser as a website, generally the web address of the website is www.mydomain.com. As you develop your online presence, you may want to have several different groups of people accessing your site, and you’d like to make it very easy to keep separate the web pages you’d like each group to have access to. For instance, you might distinguish between end customers, retailers, and distributors. One simple way to do this is to use a different subdomain name for each purpose. This means that the first part of the web address is different. Instead of “www” you might have “retailers” (or whatever you’d like). So in the case we described, you might use www.mydomain.com for your end customers, retailers.mydomain.com for your retailers, and distributors.mydomain.com for your distributors. (The latter two subdomain sites might require opening an account to gain acce