If you want to point a domain address that you have to some other domain or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is pointed to. This way, if you are using a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the site that you've created, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this kind of a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our website hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online 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 direct it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.