Hello Dudes!

My current webhoster isn't good (often down, huge banner, textlinks etc.)

Days ago I've found trap17. Here you get 200 megs space and 2 gig bw. It seemed to be a good deal. And mostly I liked that you have a forum where nice and helpful members are.

I have a registered domain. I'm using it as a "Parked Domain", so I have full acces to my free current subdomain and this TopLevelDomain.

I read out that you can apply with a current TLD or for a subdomain.

Now I will apply and I don't know to choose. Can you help me whether I shoul apply for a subdomain and park my TLD or apply directly with my TLD (but notice: For me it would be better if I could create a subdomain with an additional parked TLD)

Thx in advance,
hayri

Nice avatar, by the way!

Well, although I am new to hosting my own site, I too have my own domain registered. Why not consider TRAP17 as your main host if your current host is not up to your satisfactory? TRAP17 has 2 name servers that you can have your DNS point directly. This means you don't have to apply for yoursite.trap17.com, it will be www.yoursite.com. And within your cPanel you can assign subdomain and park whichever site you want to have it host. You are limited, however, to 9 subdomains (I'm not clear on this one since I don't use any).

You will get all the information you need once you sign up for the hosting

• ns1.trap17.com
• ns2.trap17.com

are your name server. Access your DNS panel, update and give about 24 hours to cycle.

And welcome aboard.

And I have forgotten one thing: I also plan to register a second domain name

is it then better to register a .trap17.com sub?

because I think I will point both ( my first domain and the planned second ) to ?????.trap17.com

how many parked domains do we get b.t.w? unlimited like it is written on the main page? Or did it change?

it is my mean

i well Parked Domain

I registered with a sub domain cragllo.trap17.com and then parked my domain into cpanel, and set the dns settings for my domain, sponk.co.uk, you can access the SAME site through both of them.

Humm, I am bit confused. So which way is better: getting a sub-domain and parking your purchased domain or linking trap17 directly to your purchased domain? I can see the benefit of having yourname.trap17.com because now you will have 2 url addresses. But is that all there is to it?

I have, let's say, www.thedomain.com. When I create a sub-domain named "other", it would be other.thedomain.com? But doing it cragllo's way, it would be other.cragllo.trap17.com and other.sponk.co.uk? Do I have this and understand it right?

Getting a sub-domain and parking your purchased domain would be better, if you domain messes up and does not work, YOU can still access your site if you need to edit stuff.

Ah! Now we're getting somewhere. What if I am not planning to use any of MySQL or anything except straight HTML and images? I have all my files backed-up at my local drive. So I wouldn't worry about editing offline. I am also using FileZilla to upload and cPanel can be used to upload as well. Therefore, it wouldn't make any difference for me...?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my queries.

I dont agree with cragllo completely. As BuffaloHelp is confused, I must tell, its better to point a domain directly rather than adding it as parked. For search engines, it gives wrong rating for your site. Search engines will index your site as yourname.trap17.com and not as yourname.com. So there is no point in having your own domain if its not visible in searches.
Second, as an exercise, just try to submit the sitemap of your parked domain to google. It will tell you, sitemap was not found at specified url, even if you have parked your domain with nameserver.

So my suggestion, if you bought a domain use it. Or else park it with Sedo.com if you want to earn some money.