There are many ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux hosting plan through our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a number of basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then just click the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to make it happen.