There are various ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.