# Web page building question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 9, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791 "2005-12-09T00:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791/1 "2005-12-09T00:13:35Z")
Say I own a domain name **[widgets.com](http://widgets.com)** where I market the worlds finest widgets. It is a lucrative business, yet I decide to expand my products line to inlcude **wickets**. I design a whole new web site about my wonderful **wickets** and want to upload it and run it off my existing website account and server space. However, since **widget** buyers are so opposed to **wickets** in general, I can’t have the address to my site on **wickets** have the **[widgets.com](http://widgets.com)** in its address. If I used **[widgets.com/wickets](http://widgets.com/wickets)** for the website, then anyone could easily see that I deal with **widgets** and shorten the address and go through my **widget** site. I know I could use my actual IP address in place of **widget** in the address, but still someone could just shorten the address and find the core website. Is there a way to have a webpage address to my **wickets** website, on my **widgets** server site, without the surfer being able to easily go to the **widgets** site from looking at the webpage address, or will I just have to get a new domain and account for the **wickets** site? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791/2 "2005-12-09T00:17:33Z")
> [@stanger](#): > > Is there a way to have a webpage address to my **wickets** website, on my **widgets** server site, without the surfer being able to easily go to the **widgets** site from looking at the webpage address, or will I just have to get a new domain and account for the **wickets** site? Thanks to glowing reccomendations from several dopers i registered my domains with [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com). ITs not uncommon to see domains going for tiny amounts. It might also help your business to have boths [widgets.com](http://widgets.com) and [wickets.com](http://wickets.com) just for recognition and potential accidental discovery by pervy wicket fanciers. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791/3 "2005-12-09T00:29:55Z")
There are atleast 2 ways in which this could be done. 1. Check if your hosting provider offers “add-on” domains for your existing hosting package. Note that you would still have to purchase [wickets.com](http://wickets.com). You can then “add-on” the [wickets.com](http://wickets.com) domain on your existing [widgets.com](http://widgets.com) hosting space, and they will both live happily ever after without one showing the existence of the other 2. Use stealth redirecting, offered for free from [www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com) . You still need to buy [wickets.com](http://wickets.com), then enable stealth redirecting for [wickets.com](http://wickets.com) to [widgets.com/wickets](http://widgets.com/wickets). Then, when a user types [www.wickets.com](http://www.wickets.com) they will be taken to [www.widgets.com/wickets](http://www.widgets.com/wickets) but they will still see only [www.wickets.com](http://www.wickets.com) in the address bar, and for all practical purposes it will work like an independent domain. Note that they will still very briefly see “connecting to [widgets.com](http://widgets.com)” in the lower status bar of the browser when connecting to [wickets.com](http://wickets.com). You can buy the domain from any registrar, but you will need to modify your domain to use [mydomain.com](http://mydomain.com)’s NS1 and NS2. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791/4 "2005-12-09T01:48:09Z")
I use a single [bluehost.com](http://bluehost.com) account for hosting with “add-on accounts” and [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com) (with privacy) for all of my domain names. There are some domains that I _most certainly_ don’t want to get mixed up with others, and I have perfect success at it. ---
**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-page-building-question/334791/5 "2005-12-09T05:55:25Z")
If this were a real situation, you should avoid having the two items thru the same domain. There’s a variety of ways an individual, by accident or by intention may discover widgets and wickets are on the same domain, and if discovered the cat’s out of the bag. Wicket haters will post the fact somewhere or vice versa. For example, if you forwarded the wickets domain with masking into the widgets site, someone might enter “wickets” into a SE and the wickets pages might be returned, but the real address could appear, showing widgets in the URL. Even worse, both the real and masked addresses might show in the results consecutively!