I have my personal website at www.yassershaikh.com, now I am planning to setup a website for interview related questions and answers,
Now for this I have two options
Using sub domain www.interview.yassershaikh.com
using a completely different domain www.abcdxyz.com
Now I wanted to which of the above two methods is better.
Will using sub domain hurt my SEO result ? and google ranking ?
Also I was looking for sub domain as my current site is hosted by a very good service provider and at very resonable rate, so in that way I wont have to shell out again for another domain.
Please guide me on this.
Thanks in advance
Using a subdomain should not affect your google ranking. A sub domain is cheaper, provided you have a way to host the DNS records without paying somebody else anything extra. Keep in mind that you can also use interview.yassershaikh.com -- you don't need the leading www. As a matter of fact, you don't even need a subdomain; all you need is another hostname. Right now you have an 'A' record, a hostname, at www.yassershaikh.com. You can create another 'A' record at interview.yassershaikh.com, and use that. Google doesn't care whether your host is named www.yassershaikh.com, interview.yassershaikh.com, or bluecheese.yassershaikh.com -- you can have a bunch of them, all directly under the yassershaikh.com domain.
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I recently bought SSL for my website and want to create a section within the site in the form of https://secure.example.com/member/upgrade.aspx. However, I am having a hard time solving this issue since currently my website URL rewrite prohibits any subdomain and the user is logged out if he or she gets transferred to the above link.
I have search online and found some good information such as dynamically create the url without actually creating a subdomain in IIS.
Questions:
What steps are needed to achieve the objective above?
Should I have bought the wildcard certificate instead of one for a specific subdomain?
Thank you.
One option would be ignoring that url pattern for rewrite purposes or ignoring the url if the protocol is HTTPS. That said, I would take a slightly different approach here and just put the entire site behind SSL -- rewriting all the queries to the other protocol works and google is now giving rankings bumps to HTTPS so there are good business reasons to make the switch. You are already taking the pain of getting SSL involved at all -- the dedicated IP and certficate cost the same if you use them on a single page or all the pages, might as well take advantage of it and ease your management burden in the same motion.
so basically I'm trying to make a secondary domain that is about.wyrnz.com and I was wondering if I have to buy another domain or if it is possible to do that without buying a new domain?
Thanks everyone for replying! I've worked it out now so this is now closed!
As soon as you own a second level domain (wyrnz.com), you can create as many sub-levels as you want. That includes third level (xxx.wyrnz.com), but also fourth (yyy.xxx.wyrnz.com) and as many levels you want.
That also depends on you host. I know that some hosts restricts the number of sub-domains you're allowed to create.
If www.wyrnz.com is your domain you should not have to buy another domain. In fact, you can not even buy it, you already own it. about.wyrnz.com is a subdomain of wyrnz.com.
What I did is:
Create a subfolder on the webserver, create a subdomain and point the subdomain to that folder. Every time someone types in about.wyrnz.com, the index page in the subfolder will be served to the user
I work for Johns Hopkins University, and our web culture here has been an unruled wilderness for many years. We're trying to get a handle on the enormous number of registered subdomains across our part of the web-universe, and even our IT department is having some trouble tracking down the unabridged list.
Is there a tool or a script that would do this quickly and semi-easily? I'm a developer and would write something but I want to find out if this wheel has been created already.
Alternatively, is there a fancy way to google search, more than just *.jhu.edu or site: .jhu.edu, because those searches turn up tons of sites that use "jhu.edu" in the end of their urls (ex. www.keywordspy.com/organic/domain.aspx?q=cer.jhu.edu)
Thanks for your thoughts on this one!
The Google search site:*.jhu.edu seems to work well for me.
That said, you can also use Wolfram Alpha. Using this search, in the third box click "Subdomains" and then in the new subdomains section that is created click "More".
As #Mark B alluded to in his comment, the only way a domain name (sub or otherwise) has any real value is if a DNS service maps it to a server so that a browser can send it a request. The only way to track down all of the sub-domains is to track down their DNS entries. Thankfully, DNS servers are fairly easy to find, depending on the level of access you have to the network infrastructure and the authoritative DNS server for the parent domain.
If you are able to, you can pull DNS traffic from firewall logs in and around your network. That will let you find DNS servers that are being sent requests for your sub-domains.
Easier though would be to simply follow the DNS trail. The authoritative DNS server for your domain (jhu.edu) will have pointers to the other DNS servers that are authoritative for sub-domains (if your main one is not authoritative already).
If you have access to the domain registrar and have the proper authorization, you should be able to contact technical support and request the zone file or even export it yourself depending on the provider.
I'm trying to set up a domain with the .ka suffix for a URL shortener for a project I'm working on. Similar to drbl.in for example. I've checked online and this suffix doesn't seemed to registered to any country yet or appear of any domain name service. Any ideas on how to fix this up, or if its even possible?
Thanks
There is no .ka TLD. So you'll have to pick a different one.
Full TLD List: http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
Here is a list of all top-level domains. Since .ka is not on that list, you cannot register a domain ending in .ka.
In terms of having that domain added, refer to the IANA procedure for establishing new country-code TLDs. The short version is: pick a new suffix.
As the others have said, the .ka domain extension does not exist.
It's quite difficult to get a new domain extension approved. ICANN, which accepts applications for making new TLDs, opens this registration process only every few years and it is also quite expensive.
Here's more info on getting your own TLD: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/afilias-explains-how-to-get-your-own-top-level-domain-tld/
If you're only after domain hacking and are not too particular about the spelling (as long as it sounds the same), then you might want to consider a .ca domain instead.
If you're interested, you can check if your domain hack is still available here:
https://www.marcaria.com/ws/en/domains/canada-domain-registration-ca
Greetings All,
Long time reader first time poster.
I work for a small school district. We are our own SOA so we can pretty much do what we want.
In the state of Washington all educational institutions are given a name like myschools.wednet.edu. I've recently purchased a new and hopefully easier to remember domain myschools.org and I'd like to use both domains and have them point to the same information and subdomains i.e. helpdesk.myschools.org would equal helpdesk.myschools.wednet.edu. I'd also like this to work with e-mail but I think this is a bit more complicated.
I'm sure this has been done, but I'm not entirely sure I'm asking the question in a way that can be easily answered.
Any and all help is appreciated.
TIA,
Dave
To do this, you'll have multiple DNS record entries (A-Recs) pointing to the same IP Address. You may also need to tweak IIS (or your web server software) to accept requests coming from both domains.
So...in your DNS manager (e.g. in Register.com or whereever you manage your domains) change the A-Rec to point myschools.org (your domain) to the same server IP address where myschools.wednet.edu is currently pointed (I take it that you told them where to point the subdomain).
If you are using IIS then setting up multiple domains on one web site is easy. You'll create just one web site (or use the one to which wednet.edu points). Next, right-click the web site in IIS and choose Properties. On the "Web Site" tab, click "Advanced" and in the resulting dialog, use the "Add" button to add your additional domains/subdomains. That's all you'll need to do.
Hope this helps!
If you want lots of subdomain entries to map from one domain to the other then you'll need to either add A or CNAME records in the new domain pointing to the old domain.
In most cases I'd recommend a CNAME, however if you want the unadorned "myschools.org" domain to respond to HTTP requests that would have to be an A record, because you can't put in a CNAME at the top level of a zone.
Alternatively, there's a relatively new DNS record type called DNAME which can map an entire domain to another in one fell swoop. Unfortunately it's not widely supported yet.
All you should do is create two 'A' records, one of host-type '#' and the other one of host-type 'www' both should point to the IP address of your server.
It could be a bit confusing, here's an example of how to set it up #GoDaddy's: