i think of buying a .com domain which i think may interest some people in buying subdomains so i wonder how many subdomains can i offer, which are the drawbacks on SEO (are subdomains hampered by search-engines?) and how can i keep control of my subdomains. Thank You.

well, i am pretty posative that you cannot use your trap17.com webhosted site to sell subdomains, or make a profit on anything but i am going to brush up on the rules in a minute, but if it is alloud *which for some reason i dont think it is*, but you would have to find SubDOmains manager which is located in your cpanel, and add a new subdomain to their preferense, then you would obviously need to give them FTP Access, in which case you would go to your FTP Account manager and add one with the username as the same thing as the subdomain meaning if you were to call the subdomain testing.orderofhogwarts.be then the FTP username would need to be testing and with that, the path to where they will be managing is automaticly put in the correct box...then all they would have to do is login with the information you make for them, and upload their files to the directory they are limited to but nott he cgi-bin, (they will not have access you your mail site files just the sub domains files). you can also set-up a quota for them to be limited to.........but for now let me go and check the rules and see if there is anything in theeabout sub-domain hosting... yo are also limited to 99 sub-domains

This post has been edited by Albus Dumbledore: Apr 22 2006, 04:38 PM

I think you can make a profit, but you can't sell your trap17 account in any way, including selling subdomains. This isn't the best way to make a profit anyway, most people who find your site will keep looking until they find one of the many free subdomain hosts.

I think that i slousy business you get nothing from subdomais as for people pay for domains also and if for 5$ a year you can have a domain who would buy a subdomain? and there are free subdomains on the net being trap17.com the first example!!!

don't you support this?

As the other people mentioned here, it is (or probably is) against the rules to make a subdomain service. I saw a thread about this earlier, and the outcome was that it is prohibited. And as Euro Ganhos €$ said, why bother, when you won't really make much from it? Besides, it would be quite difficult to make a service that doesn't require your intervention (unless you are a decent coder).

Yeah, probably a bad ideea , anyway now i realize i was thinking at something else but i didn't think too deep to refine my ideea. The whole point is that for a starter company i don't want to get a payed domain but i won't consider presenting myself with a subdomain like trap17 because i don't want to mix my company's name with some other company's name when i present my web adress. I was looking for a more neutral solution like www.mycompany.***.com, where *** is something related with (my?) business, so that a client when accessing my web page doesn't necessarly recognize that some other company hosts my site and if he realizes this he can't tell the company and 'mycompany' remains mainly in his head, not ***. Hope i made myself understood a little.