## Creating a Plesk Domain

Both Providers and Resellers can create Plesk Domains directly from Provider (or Reseller) Control Center by selecting the corresponding Hosting Plan and customer account.

To make it possible to create Plesk domains manually, please register at least one Plesk Node and create at least one Hosting Plan of Plesk Domain type.

To create a Plesk Domain:

1. Select Service Director - Plesk Manager.
2. Click Domains on the Plesk Manager submenu. The list of all Plesk Domains appears on the screen.
3. Click the New Plesk Domain button. Follow the wizard, enter all the necessary data, click Next to go to the next step:
4. Select the Account to create a Plesk domain for and the platform (Unix or Windows):
   1. Set the option button to the type of the account:

      To Account to select the customer account.

      OR

      To Reseller to select the Reseller account.

   2. Click the Select button next to the type of the account you have selected. The list of all active account of the selected type appears in the popup window. Click on the account name to select it. The account name must appear in the relevant field of the form.
   3. If you have both Plesk Unix and Plesk Windows nodes registered, select the operating system the Plesk server runs from the Platform drop-down menu.
5. Select the subscription properties:
   1. Select the subscription period duration from the Subscription period drop-down menu. You can also allow some trial period is this allowed by the hosting plan you are going to select.
   2. Select the Hosting Plan that will define the fees and overall configuration of Plesk domain. To this effect, click the Select button next to the Hosting Plan field and select the Hosting Plan from the list that appears on the popup window.
   3. Type the Plesk domain administrator password into the Administrator password fields. Type the password once again into the Retype administrator password field to ensure the correct enter.
6. Select the domain name registration type by setting the option button to one of the following:
   - Create subdomain. Create a subdomain in one of Provider default domains. Type the subdomain name into the Hostname field and select one of the default domains.
   - Host your already registered domain. This is the DNS hosting that provides the domain delegation to the Parallels Business Automation - Standard DNS. In this case the zone file is being created for the domain, and this domain is resolved correctly by the Parallels Business Automation - Standard DNS. However, no real transfer is performed. The domain delegation is billed in Parallels Business Automation - Standard, but it keeps being managed by the same Registrar, and no automated registration renewal is performed for this domain - this remains on customer's hand.
7. Review the Plesk domain configuration and if everything is correct, click the Finish button to confirm the Plesk domain creation.

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