I'm new to Cpanel. I recently bought a new domain and, when after four days I couldn't find it in Cpanel, I was told by support that to use the new domain I'd have to install it as an add-on to the existing domain. The question is why would I by a domain for $10 when I could've installed it free as an add-on domain. Also what would happen to this domain and the WP sites I'm going to build on it when and if I decide to let the top domain expire?
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- Thread starter equalizer
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ezlegion
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- Jun 22, 2010
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Hi equalizer,
I may well have misunderstood you but I'll try to answer:
Registering a domain and then installing it in your cpanel are 2 separate things.
So, you register the domain for your $10, then install the name of the domain into your cpanel, then add a site to it.
If you open a brand new hosting account you can install the name of the domain as the 'main domain'
OR
If you already have a hosting account with a 'main' domain then you install the name of the domain you just bought as an 'addon'
I hope that helps.
If you need any further advice you're very welcome to pm me
I may well have misunderstood you but I'll try to answer:
Registering a domain and then installing it in your cpanel are 2 separate things.
So, you register the domain for your $10, then install the name of the domain into your cpanel, then add a site to it.
If you open a brand new hosting account you can install the name of the domain as the 'main domain'
OR
If you already have a hosting account with a 'main' domain then you install the name of the domain you just bought as an 'addon'
I hope that helps.
If you need any further advice you're very welcome to pm me
Thanks ezlegion, I guess this is the way it's done with Cpanel. So that domain purchase was not necessary. I have a hosting acct. with Dreamhost and they have a different "panel", and all the domains I have there are standalone and separate from each other, so I thought that was the system, but it's not so with Cpanel. Question: is it possible to promote the domain I just purchased and make it the top domain, and demote the top domain to an add-on domain or sub-domain?
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Well, when I signed up with this hosting company, I also bought a domain in the insurance niche. Then four days ago I bought a domain in the fat loss niche, because I thought it wouldn't look good to have a sub-domain or add-on domain inside an insurance domain. But that's exactly what I have now. Maybe it doesn't matter, I don't know.