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What is a DNS CNAME ? | How to Create and Edit - QPidi

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Starting with basic settings, specially from website dns record is important to understand that how their search engine crawl bot see our website and how to finds us. CNAME is the one of to important aspect that how to our website reached from prefix like WWW so lets dive in.


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What is CNAME?

A DNS CNAME record provides an alias for another domain.


A canonical name (CNAME) is a type of database record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that shows that one domain name is a nickname or alias for another domain name. The CNAME, which is also called the "true name," is especially important when more than one service runs from the same IP address.


Example of CNAME

  • An A record for example.com pointing to the server IP address

  • A CNAME record for www.example.com pointing to example.com

As a result, example.com points to the server IP address, and www.example.com points to the same address via example.com. If the IP address changes, you only need to update it in one place: just edit the A record for example.com, and www.example.com automatically inherits the changes.

Create & Edit a CNAME

  1. Go to your Domain Page

  2. Click Edit DNS Record

  3. Click Add New Record at CNAME Section

  4. Set Your Prefix like "www" at Host Name Section

  5. Fill your value by your host dns server name

  6. Click Save


Uses of Canonical Name Records

Here are a few common ways to use CNAME records:

  • to send visitors from several websites owned by the same person or group to the main website;

  • to give each network service, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or email, its own hostname and point it to the root domain;

  • to give each customer a subdomain on the domain of a single service provider and use CNAME to point the subdomain to the customer's root domain; and

  • to register the same domain in more than one country and point the versions for each country to the main domain.


Where can I find my CNAME?

You may find your CName record by manually checking it, via your DNS dashboard when you update it, or via online look-up tools such as at www.whatsmydns.net

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