There are several ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, 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 often additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared package from our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you'll 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, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to get it done.