There are many ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a website through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result 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. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. 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 Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single 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 modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.