There are lots of ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your CP.