There are various ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a site through some on-line 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a hosting plan through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. That way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to do it.