There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name 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 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 will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential 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 directing to one company and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.