There are several ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a website through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
In case you have a web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.