There are various ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website through some online 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're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux web hosting with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can 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 mouse click to do it.