If you wish to point a domain that you have to a different 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, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's redirected 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 name and not only will it be directed to the website that you have created, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record set up for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.