There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've set up a site through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting with our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you will have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it takes only a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any troubles, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.