I am hoping someone can help us achieve the following: We have a website already hosted on Netlify, using Netlify DNS. Let’s call it: www.OURDOMAIN.com We want to now have a subdomain on that website called: admin.OURDOMAIN.com When then want to pont admin.OURDOMAIN.com to another website …

Hey @osseonews , If we’re already hosting your DNS for ourdomain.com , you should be able to add admin.ourdomain.com as the primary domain of your second site, adminourdomain.netlify.app. I don’t think you’ll need a CNAME unless I’m misunderstanding? For further troubleshooting, please share your ac…

Thanks, but how can a subdomain be added as a primary domain for an entirely different application? This would imply that the DNS of a main domain ( www.OURDOMAIN.com or OURDOMAIN.com ) is an absolutely useless concept. You can’t register a subdomain of a primary domain that is already registered, or …

Try it before you knock it :slight_smile: Our Director of Support offered the same advice previously.

OK, we’ll try it. But, it literally makes no sense, as it implies that we can create something like social.facebook.com and it will work perfectly fine, as long we make that the primary domain of the netlify app. If anyone can assign any subdomain as they please, and don’t have to change any DNS for…

BTW, we just tried this, and of course it doesn’t work, as expected. I would like to point out the obvious reason why the above suggestion does not work: When you try to register a subdomain as a primary custom domain for a Netlify app, Netlify requests that you point your nameservers for the subdo…

OK, we played around with the DNS a bit more and got a subdomain to work. However, the problem is that what happens when you add a subdomain to another Netlify app, when you host the domain with Netlify DNS is that Netlify automatically creates a “Netlify” system record in your DNS for the domain, p…

We can flip a switch backend to allow you to delete the record :+1: If you want to either reply with the domain(s) in question or PM me, I can get that sorted for you. The reason we do this is to inhibit people from making use of Netlify DNS without hosting a site here – the DNS is an additional pe…

Pointing Subdomain to another Netlify Website

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Try it before you knock it Our Director of Support offered the same advice previously.

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Pointing Subdomain to another Netlify Website

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