If you wish to forward a domain that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is pointed to. By doing this, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be forwarded to the site that 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 of the visitors from different subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record set up for the main domain makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.