There are several ways to point a domain address to another 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 which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our hosting plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.