There are lots of ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a website using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up 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 e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux hosting packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.