There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've developed a site 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are 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 website 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 may have will stop functioning, so you can't 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 frequently further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which 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 via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your Control Panel.