If you'd like to forward a domain name that you have to some other domain or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is forwarded to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the Internet site that you've created, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, 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 type of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux website hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers 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 using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.