Subdomain Finer (2024)

FAQs

How do I see all subdomains of a domain? ›

As long as you use them correctly, subdomains are fine for your SEO performance.

By search engines

Search engines like Google supports various advanced search operators to refine search queries. These operators are often referred to as Google Dorks. We can use site: operator in Google search to find all the Subdomains that Google has found for a Domain. Lets take an example on “site:vulnweb.com”.

YES. Search engines index subdomains – this has been established.

However, Google treats subdomains as separate sites.

While “blog.example.com” and “example.com” may share a root domain, Googlebot will view them as distinct domains and crawl and index them accordingly.

The most common subdomain is “www” or “world wide web.” The subdirectory points users to the main directory of a website—in other words, where your homepage and other core pages live. Other subdomains work to create distinct parts of a site. For example, Google's root domain is www.google.com.

Subdomain Finder scans the DNS records and supplementary databases to analyze the domain's hierarchy. Our subdomain scanner checks: DNS records (NS, MX, TXT, AXFR) DNS enumeration.

Let's say you are making a pitch to a client to create their new website. You can create a subdomain that is specifically intended for them to give an idea of what their new website might look like. This is hosted on your own main domain, while retaining ownership of the subdomain.

A domain can have up to 500 subdomains. You can create multiple levels of subdomains such as store.product.yoursite.com, test.forum.yoursite.com, etc. Each subdomain can be up to 255 characters long, but for multi level subdomains, each level can only be 63 characters long.

Do subdomains need their own sitemap? ›

A sitemap is a file of your site's pages, links and other information that helps Google read and index your site. Each subdomain has its own dedicated sitemap that needs to be submitted to Google individually. Tip: You can check your subdomain's sitemap in the address bar by adding /sitemap.

There are two disadvantages: A subdomain works like a separate domain in terms of authority: you would have to spend more time and money for building the authority for your root domain compared to when the blog was under a /subdirectory/ or on /separate-pages/.

Subdomain hijacking, also known as dangling DNS, occurs when a threat actor gains control of a subdomain of a legitimate domain.

Yes you can do this. Sub domains are treat no differently to regular domains. Only decision to make is if you want to leverage as an alias domain or secondary domain.

One of the benefits of Google Dorking is that it can be used for subdomain enumeration. This is done by searching for the "site:" operator in Google, followed by the target domain. For example, searching for "site:example.com" will return a list of all websites that are hosted on the example.com domain.

Using a terminal and the command nslookup is the most effective way to search a domain's DNS records. On almost all operating systems, this command works perfectly and displays all DNS records for the domain.

A domain can have up to 500 subdomains. You can create multiple levels of subdomains such as store.product.yoursite.com, test.forum.yoursite.com, etc. Each subdomain can be up to 255 characters long, but for multi level subdomains, each level can only be 63 characters long.

A subdomain, on the other hand, is another part of the URL structure that goes before the domain name. As its main purpose is for site organization, your website can work fine without it.

Subdomains are used to expand the use of a single domain, these do not need to be purchased separately to your domain; if you own a domain then you can add a subdomain to this. This method is commonly used for Moodle and Totara site setups.