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Canonical Name (CNAME) Record

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Canonical Name (CNAME) Record or Alias Record. A type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that one domain name is an alias of another domain name. For example, CNAMEs are often used by CDN customers to re-point domain names under their control to CDN domain names which serve their traffic.

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