There are numerous ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our shared web hosting plans is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many options - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.