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Hello there,
I want to use Dynadot Name Server, but I also want to use CNAME for both "mydomain.com" and "www.mydomain.com". It seems that Dynadot DNS's CNAME does not support any "blank" subdomain like "mydomain.com IN CNAME ghs.google.com".
Could you tell me how to do that ?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

MS

If you are using our Advanced DNS settings, you can also try to find out the IP address for ghs.google.com, and then use that IP address as the IP address for your domain.  The only problem with this approach is if the IP address for ghs.google.com changes to a different IP address, you will need to manually update your DNS settings to the new IP address.

c_a_b_kingston_ca, thank you ! ;-)

MS

As far as I know, CNAME cannot be used on the base domain - only on subdomains. I have my own pair of domain name servers, and BIND won't accept CNAME on the base domain at all - so this is not just something specific to one provider.

A possible alternative, if the domain you want to use as an alias is 'example.org' (for example) use a web redirect to send example.org enquires to www.example.org, then use:

www.example.org.  CNAME some.other.site.

The base domain can be an A or AAAA record, but not a CNAME.