If you would like to direct a domain that you have to another domain name or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is forwarded to. In this way, 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 pointed to the website that you have set up, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our hosting plans is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many options - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site by using a different provider 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 a web-based 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 visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.