If you'd like to forward a domain address that you have to a different domain or subdomain, a good 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, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is pointed 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 name and not only will it be redirected to the site that you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux shared web hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes 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 just a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails 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 which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.