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Paul Gulliver

9 Years Ago

Any Domain/sub-domain Experts Here?

I have a domain (ipgphotography.com) registered (but not hosted) with Go-Daddy, at the moment it points to my Zenfolio site. With the advent of our new Artists site I was wondering if its possible for me to create a sub-domain of ipgphotography and point that to my Artists site. I know you can create a sub domain if its hosted with a company but I'm not sure in these circumstances.
Can anybody help?

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Jai Johnson

9 Years Ago

I think Abbie is looking into this, Paul. I too have a Zenfolio site where my domain is pointed to and am wondering about the sub-domain issue. Right now, I have a link from my main site to "buy prints", which will take them to the artist's site provided by FAA.

 

Paul Gulliver

9 Years Ago

Thanks Jai,
Looking at the Go-daddy site I think sub-domains can only be used when a site is hosted by the company, I can't see any reference to creating sub-domains when its just registered with them. I might go for a .uk name

 

Mary Ellen Anderson

9 Years Ago

Paul,
I have both hosted and non-hosted domains with godaddy, but on each the subdomain is under the DNS tab when you launch the domain name.

But I'm trying to follow what you're thinking about doing. Do you want AW to just be a tab on your private domain?

-- mary ellen anderson

 

Gary Whitton

9 Years Ago

I just found out about being able to point your artist site to domain so haven't completely looked at the FAA side of things, but in principle as long as you have the proper tools within Godaddy and what's needed from Fineartamerica, there shouldn't be any difference between domain.com and subdomain.domain.com

 

Dan Turner

9 Years Ago

When someone types a domain name (i.e. ipgphotography.com) it can only point to one place. It doesn't make any difference if it's a domain, add-on domain or a sub domain.

However, if you have a number of different domain names, you can point them all to the same website.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

You can only use one site here ie cname, but you can forward 100

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

You can point a sub domain to a domain it actually belongs to but not offsite as far as I can find out

Ie

Laugh.andtheworldlaughswithyou.com
Can only have its cname go to

Andtheworlddlaughswithyou.com, not to artistwebsites.com

The sub domain can only be forwarded

 

Paul Gulliver

9 Years Ago

Thanks for all the replies,
I think it's become clear that I will have to register a new domain name for the artist web site,
Just a word of warning for anyone using Go Daddy for domains, with a .UK site ( and probably others) if you select a term of 1 or 2 years you pay £4.99 per year, if you select a 5 year term you pay £5.89 per year, which seems bit backward to me, usually the longer you commit to the cheaper the cost

 

Alexis Birkill

9 Years Ago

Hi Paul,

Missed this discussion earlier, sorry. As I mentioned in the main thread here about new AW sites, you absolutely can redirect a subdomain, but currently FAA is not doing the lookup at their end correctly, so you end up going to the main FAA site, rather than your AW page. Hopefully this is something that can be fixed by FAA fairly quickly, as there's at least three of us wanting to use subdomains now :)

 

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