There are several ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our website hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will require no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally easy and takes a click. If you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.