There are several ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a site through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result 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 company. It is important to 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 directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a mouse click to get it done.