CNAME (Canonical Name) Record: A CNAME record is used to alias one domain name to another. It directs traffic from the domain to another domain or subdomain. For example, if you have a blog hosted at blog.example.com
, you could use a CNAME record to redirect traffic from www.blog.example.com
to blog.example.com
. It's important to note that CNAME records should only be used for subdomains and not for the root domain because they can interfere with other necessary DNS records.