If you would like to point a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is directed to. That way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be directed to the website that you have set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this type of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our web hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if 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 redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.