There are several ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a website through some online service that provides 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 are 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.