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Domains and subdomains

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Domains and subdomains

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- [Instructor] A domain is like your website's address. It's completely unique to your site. No two sites can have the same domain. A URL is the entirety of that domain and everything that may come with it like https://bizname.com/contact is a URL, which contains your domain, bizname.com. That slash contact after is called a slug, also called a path or a page, and the https part is called the protocol. No matter what type of site you build, you'll experience these elements of a URL. Subdomains can be uniquely helpful for an e-commerce website. A subdomain is almost a hack for having two websites for the price of one domain. When you set up a subdomain on your host, it will act as a fresh WordPress install. A subdomain would be added to the front of your domain like store.mybusiness.com, or uk.mystore.com. You may want to use a subdomain for the store itself. If you have an established business and want to add a store to…

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