There are many ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line service which supplies 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 will 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 Internet site 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built a website via 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 company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.