ALIAS record
A feature offered by some DNS provider A company that runs the name servers for a domain, which may differ from the registrar. Full definition of DNS provider that lets the bare domain point to another hostname, which a CNAME record Canonical Name record A DNS record that makes one domain name an alias of another. Full definition of CNAME record cannot do there. The provider looks up the target and answers with its IP Internet Protocol The internet's basic rules for sending data, using numeric addresses for every connected device. Full definition of IP. It is not an internet standard, so names and behavior differ between providers.
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