What is an addon domain?

An addon’ domain is a separate domain that is hosted on your primary domain’ but it’ appears as if’ it is hosted on it's own account.’ If you were toaddon "newdomain.com", a user browsing to your site will see "newdomain.com" in the URL, but it will be redirecting it to a specific folder under your primary domain.

Gretor offers unlimited addon domains with all of it's plans. To addon a domain please follow these steps:

Firstly please ensure that the name servers are pointing to:

ns1.gretor.com: 64.27.20.44
ns2.gretor.com: 69.175.61.130

Login to your cPanel account and select 'Addon Domains' under the 'Domains' menu.

Complete the form as follows:

New Domain Name: the domain you wish to add
Subdomain/FTP Username: Whatever you put in the this field will be the folder that is created under your primary account. It will also be the default username for mail and FTP.’ 
Password: your password

The change in nameservers may take up to 48 hours.

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