If you'd like to forward a domain address that you have to another domain name or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is directed to. By doing this, 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 forwarded to the website that you have set up, but it will also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that such a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our shared hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various options - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.