There are several ways to redirect a domain to another 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 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created a site via another provider, 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 provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.