Question on CNAME for different domains

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Balaji picture Balaji · Sep 16, 2011 · Viewed 21.8k times · Source

Is it posssible for me to use CNAME for different domains like

www.domain2.com CNAME www.domain1.com

Both are server from same server but different Virtual host (root paths are different)

Answer

davidethell picture davidethell · Sep 16, 2011

Yes, it is valid for a CNAME to point to an entirely different domain. This is often used in the context of using CNAME records to handle the TLD variants on your domain such as:

mydomain.com CNAME mydomain.net.

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