If you wish to point a domain address that you have to a different domain name or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's forwarded to. That way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the Internet site that you've set up, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this kind of a record created for the main domain renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted 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 a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.