{"id":156389,"date":"2025-11-20T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/?p=156389"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:03:36","slug":"add-a-subdomain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/add-a-subdomain\/","title":{"rendered":"Add a subdomain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A subdomain is a distinct section of your website or a secondary websites<strong> <\/strong>that uses the same domain name. For instance, if you wanted the blog section of your site to exist in its own subdomain, you could create the subdomain <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.example.com\">blog.example.com<\/a>. The main domain would be <a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\">example.com<\/a> and the blog would be a subdomain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To set up a subdomain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create an A record. For details, see Create an A record.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Name field, enter the subdomain field.\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The subdomain name should include the primary domain name.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The subdomain name cannot start with a period (.) or a hyphen (-).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The subdomain name cannot exceed 63 characters.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The IP of the subdomain is usually the same as the IP of the primary domain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Following is an example of subdomain A record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The subdomain is <strong>blog.mycoolsitees.com<\/strong> and the IPv4 address is the same as the IP address as <strong>coolsitees.com<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Examples of valid subdomain names<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Some valid subdomain names for the primary domain <strong>example.com<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>blog.example.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>my-blog.example.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>myblog.europe.example.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A subdomain is a distinct section of your website or a secondary websites that uses the same domain name. 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