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

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our shared website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed 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 just a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of options - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.