wild card domain name?

[Sunflower]

I don't know where to ask this so here it goes.
You can add anything to the front of my domain name and it acts like a subdomain. Example (gpwa.aaaonlinecasinoguide.com)
I could have 1000s of subdomains but they all direct to my main site. Wouldn't this cause duplicate content problems with search engines? I contacted my host but they said they can't fix it, that's the way it works. Bull, no other websites I've found does this.
Thanks
Terry

[allfreechips]

so you can add any sub domain name that does not exsist and it routes to your domain?

If tru, I would add a .htaccess line to block that or put all to www.domain...

[Sunflower]

I've tried several different .htaccess lines to block but nothing works. It must be built into the domain pointing configuration the hosting company is using.

[allfreechips]

if you have an .htaccess file you can access we can fix it.

have you tried this

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

[davemerry]

Hi Sunflower,

Mind posting the site you are having issues with? May be able to help more if you can.

Not sure if I am misinterpreting your question here, I have checked out the example and the link in your signature but any subdomains for aaaonlinecasinoguide.com (for example http://http://test.aaaonlinecasinoguide.com/) all give 404 header responses, which is correct.

Cheers,
Dave

[Simmo!]

...and if that doesnt fix it and your host can't offer an alternative I would consider moving hosts. It only really becomes an issue if you get links to the subdomains but a competitor might do it to try and harm you as subdomains can cause dupe-content issues.

[ALEX777]

can't fix it, that's the way it works

Move hosting, they have a stupid (and very easy to fix) mistake in configuration.

[Sunflower]

Thanks everybody. Everything works now after I told them I was going to change hosting company. All they needed to do was eliminate the wildcard subdomain feature. Google had already listed some pages with the subdomain which were duplicate content. That's how I discovered it.
Thanks
Terry