There are lots of ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name 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 frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a web hosting plan from our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain 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 choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to get it done.