cname??? subdomain?? hostname???

[Bay]

Can someone tell me what's the different btw cname, subdomain, and hostname??? What are they actually???

When I talk about whatever.domain.com, how should I refer "whatever.domain.com" as? Should "whatever" be the subdomain or hostname???

Bay

[DeShawn]

Using your example...

whatever.domain.com

domain.com = domain name
whatever = subdomain

CNAME = Canonical name for an alias. For example, domain.com may need to server not only as a web server, but also an email server and an FTP server. So CNAME records can be defines such as "mail.domain.com" = "domain.com" and "ftp.domain.com" = "domain.com"

Hope this helps.

DeShawn

[Starr]

Actually, its:

.com = Top Level Domain or "TLD"

domain = The 2nd level domain name

www = A 3rd level Domain name or "CNAME".