If you'd like to direct a domain that you have to a different domain address or subdomain, one way 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 forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is directed to. That way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be directed to the Internet site you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from different 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 simply because such a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, 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 can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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 point it to the main domain address, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.