There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up 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 Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a shared website hosting plan with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a number of easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up 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 want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to make it happen.