There are several ways to redirect a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our shared hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.