If you'd like to forward a domain that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's redirected to. By doing this, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the website that you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain name, 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 since this kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our shared web hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.