If you'd like to point a domain that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways 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, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's forwarded to. By doing this, if you are using 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 site that you've set up, but it will also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the targeted traffic 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 instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that such a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux web hosting through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to do it.