If you want to point a domain address that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's pointed to. In this way, if you are using a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the site that you've created, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this type of a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.