If you wish to point a domain name that you have to a different domain or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's forwarded to. That way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the site which you have created, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this kind of a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.