How to create this type of subdomain on the fly like Blogger.com How to create this type of subdomain on the fly like Blogger.com asp.net asp.net

How to create this type of subdomain on the fly like Blogger.com


Use a wild card domain in IIS so it traps every request to the top level domain and under.

In asp.net: Create an HttpModule... this will run for every request and you can check the domain name, etc and pull in user information based on the sub-domain. An example httpmodule can be found at URL Rewriting in ASP.NET via HttpModule.

In asp.net mvc: Create a custom RouteHandler (custom based on interface IRouteHandler). Look at RouteHandler vs ControllerFactory question for an example.


You need to add a wildcard DNS mapping that maps *.example.com to your webserver, and a wildcard hostname mapping telling IIS to send all subdomains to your ASP.Net website.

You can then check Request.Hostname in server-side code and use the appropriate content (or error message)