Adding Wildcard Subdomains

Use wildcard subdomains to redirect visitors from non-existent subdomains to one of your websites, commonly, to your main website. The typical use cases of this feature are:

• Improve website organization and run marketing campaigns. For example, you do not have the vps-limited-offer subdomain but wish to forward users from limited-vps-offer.example.com to example.com.
• Help users reach your website even if they mistyped a subdomain name. It is a widespread mistake to mistype a website name if it has the leading www prefix (for example, typing ww.example.com).
• Finally, some website applications (WordPress) use wildcard subdomains to create dynamic subdomains for convenience and better user experience.

Note: Traffic to existent subdomains will not be affected in any way if you add a wildcard subdomain.

How to Add Wildcard Subdomains

You can add one wildcard subdomain per each of domain names under a subscription. For this, go to the Websites & Domains tab and add a new subdomain which name is "*" to one of your domain names. Example: *.example.com. If you wish this subdomain to have a custom set of scripts or website content, specify a custom document root for this subdomain.

Limitations of Wildcard Subdomains

Wildcard subdomains act like typical subdomains with the following exceptions:

• Renaming is not available. It is not possible to rename such subdomains.
• No DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for these names into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide, distributed keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet. zone. This type of subdomains does not have own zone record in the Panel's DNS server. Instead, they have the A record The A-record is used to translate human friendly domain names such as "www.example.com" into IP-addresses such as 23.211.43.53 (machine friendly numbers). that points to the IP address An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing associated with a corresponding domain name.
• Installation of APS apps is not allowed. Panel users are unable to install APS apps to wildcard subdomains.
• No Web Presence Builder sites. Panel users are unable to edit and publish sites to these subdomains.