Overview

A subdomain is an extension added to the front of your primary domain name (root domain) to help organize and isolate different sections of a website.

Structure Comparison

• Root Domain: example.com
• Subdomain Example: shop.example.com or support.example.com

Common Use Cases

• E-commerce stores: Separating your main corporate brochure site from your shopping cart (store.example.com).
• Blog sections: Hosting a content management system independently from a custom-coded primary application (blog.example.com).
• Geographic targeting: Directing international visitors to localized regional pages (uk.example.com or fr.example.com).
• Testing environments: Creating staging sites for developers to test updates before pushing changes live (staging.example.com).