There are many ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will 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 name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared web hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.