There are lots of ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our shared web hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of options - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.