There are numerous ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have created 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux shared hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.