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Thursday, August 20, 2015

How to Create a Web Alias in DNS (5 Steps)


Contact your registrar (company you purchased your domain name from). If you don't know who your registrar is you can run a whois search at any major registrar. Some of the major registrars are godaddy.com, register.com, and networksolutions.com.
Ask the support representative to create a CNAME. Provide them the name of the alias and the host it points to (destination). In some cases the registrar will direct you to their DNS control panel and provide you with a user name and password.
Log in to the control panel and add a new CNAME. It displays two fields the 'name' and the 'host'. In the name field enter the name of the alias you want to use. For example if you designated ehow.demandstudios.com as the address enter ehow into the field.
In the host field enter the destination. For example my destination for ehow.demandstudios.com is www.ehow.com so I will enter www.ehow.com into the field.
After the CNAME has been created please allow up to 24 hours for DNS servers to see the new information that has been created in your zone file.
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