Are people using sub-domains for multiple sites?

Can I use my existing domain to create sub-domains for AM?

[cargo303]

Hello all,

These forums are great, and I think that in a short time I will begin building sites as an affiliate marketer. I currently have a domain for my small web design business and thought I'd build sub-domains off of it for any AM sites I build. Is this what most of you do? Any reason I should get new domains instead for each new website I design?

Thanks in advance!

[Jinker]

I think another top domain is better.

[rfung]

If you know any scripting language, what you can do is setup a subfolder on your web root directory, assign the domain to the same account as your primary domain, and then when the user types in the second domain, it gets scripted to the subfolder.

This poses some problems with pagerank, but it can be solved if you exchange links, just provide the www.otherdomain.com/otherdomain/ - of course if you eventually move the site to it's own account/domain, then the pagerank might be screwed up. OTOH, it saves you on having multiple hosting accounts.

If you're lucky with your hosting company, they may let you set up the redirect through the IIS/Apache config, then if they type 'www.otherdomain.com' they get set to the subfolder, but the subfolder doesn't show up on the address bar.

If any of that made sense.