{"id":53,"date":"2015-04-27T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betakb.veeble.org\/?p=53"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:58:28","slug":"domain-already-exists-error-while-adding-addon-domain-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veeble.com\/kb\/domain-already-exists-error-while-adding-addon-domain-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Domain already exists&#8221; error while adding addon domain in cPanel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are trying to add-on a domain in cPanel and get &#8220;Domain already exists&#8221; messages, you will have to manually remove the DNS entries before you can add the domain.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, you can get an error message if you are adding domains that have similar names &#8211; meaning mydomain.com and mydomain.net &#8211; the .com will work, but you will have to use a different <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Transfer_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTP<\/a> name for the .net domain to work. If this is not the case, then please follow the steps below.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unsure who the user is &#8211; run this via SSH to get the owner of the domain:<\/p>\n<pre>#\/scripts\/whoowns domain.com\n<\/pre>\n<p>First, try and remove the DNS zone via WHM &#8211; Home\u00a0\u00bb DNS Functions\u00a0\u00bb Delete a DNS Zone.<\/p>\n<p>If the DNS zone is not present then you will have to remove it manually on the server.<\/p>\n<p>SSH into server and run this:<\/p>\n<pre>#\/scripts\/killdns domain.com  (where domain.com is the name of the domain you are trying to add in cPanel)\n<\/pre>\n<p>These are the locations to search for any reference to domain.com<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/named.conf\n\/usr\/local\/apache\/conf\/httpd.conf\n\/var\/named\/domain.com.db\n\/etc\/userdomains\n\/etc\/localdomains\n\/var\/cpanel\/users\/&lt;username&gt;\n<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Note: replace any instance above of domain.com with the domain you are trying to add in cPanel. 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