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Basics: The Root Domain and Sub Domain - Differences

DNS translates human-readable domain names to machine-readable IP addresses. It is important to understand common DNS record types like A, CNAME, MX, and TXT records. DNS can be used to scale websites using round-robin DNS. NS and SOA records are also important. A root domain is the highest level domain without a dot, while subdomains contain a dot and are subordinate to the root domain. Multiple subdomains can be created for a single root domain for free.

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Basics: The Root Domain and Sub Domain - Differences

DNS translates human-readable domain names to machine-readable IP addresses. It is important to understand common DNS record types like A, CNAME, MX, and TXT records. DNS can be used to scale websites using round-robin DNS. NS and SOA records are also important. A root domain is the highest level domain without a dot, while subdomains contain a dot and are subordinate to the root domain. Multiple subdomains can be created for a single root domain for free.

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DNS

System engineering & DevOps

Basics
DNS is, in simple words, the technology that translates human-adapted, text-based domain
names to machine-adapted, numerical-based IP:

 Learn everything about DNS in cartoon


 Be sure to know the main DNS record types:
o A https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/a-record/
o CNAME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record
o MX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record
o TXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT_record

Advanced

 Use DNS to scale with round-robin DNS


https://www.dnsknowledge.com/whatis/round-robin-dns/
 What’s an NS Record? https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/ns-record/
 What’s an SOA Record? https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/soa-record/

The root domain and sub domain - differences


A root domain is the parent domain to a sub domain, and its name is not, and can not be
divided by a dot.
While creating any domain at a website of domain provider, the provider system will always ask
you to choose a domain name without a dot in the name. In other words, the address of the
root domain may be mydomain.com but it can never be my.domain.com. Domain providers
block the ability to create such a root domain until you type a name without the dot. Why?
The dot in the domain name delimits the sub domain name (the part of the name before the
dot, eg. www.my.) and the root domain name ( the part after the dot, ie .domain.com). This
means that the address my.domain.com is a sub domain of the root domain, whose name
is domain.com
In an administrator panel at domain provider account, you can create any number of sub
domains. This means that for the root domain called domain.com it is possible to create
different sub domains eg. my.domain.com, your.domain.com, holberton.domain.com…
Creating multiple sub domains is always free and does not require you to set up new accounts
on a domain provider website.
As you can see, all of the domain addresses used as an example (above) do not start with
the www prefix. www is also a sub domain. The www prefix always leads to the main domain.
See: https://serverfault.com/questions/145777/what-s-the-point-in-having-www-in-a-url

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