CNAME records

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What does creating a CNAME record for your domain do for you? Is creating a CNAME record an easy thing to accomplish?

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A CNAME Record, also known as a Canonical Name Record or Alias Record, is used to make one domain name an alias of another domain name. For example, the default www and ftp records for most hosting accounts are CNAMEs of http://your-domain.com (the @ record). This means that www.your-domain.com, ftp.your-domain.com and your-domain.com would all point to the same location.

You can create a CNAME record in one of two ways. You can refer to an existing A Record, or you can refer to an existing Domain Name. For example:

;Zone       Server
test1       www
test2       www.other-domain.com.

Details: DNS Info myhosting.com Wiki