There are many ways to direct a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've developed a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site 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 may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.