There are numerous ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've set up a site through some online 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're going to achieve with this 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. You should 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 working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.