If you'd like to point a domain that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's forwarded to. This way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the website that you've set up, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because such a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.