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Spam Resource: Subdomains: What are they, and do you need them?
- August 1, 2022
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just posted a new insightful article on Spam Resource:
Subdomains are “sub entries” under your domain name. Sometimes they’re more accurately called hostnames or FQDNs (“fully qualified domain names”) but for simplicity’s sake, I’m mostly just going to call them subdomains here.You’re reading this on Spam Resource, which has a website address of www.spamresource.com, of which spamresource.com is the domain name. If I were going to create a subdomain for my email newsletter, I might choose email.spamresource.com. In this case, email.spamresource.com is a subdomain of spamresource.com.If you send different types of email messages in any significant volume (at least thousands monthly), you might want to consider having separate subdomains for different from addresses for different types of emails that you send.Let’s say you’re Jeremy Bonto, founder of the famous Bontocorp conglomerate, a company that sells a lot of widgets to people, and also has a lot of employees. It is potentially a good practice for Bontocorp to not send
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