There are numerous ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.