Comments on: CNAMEs – how do they work? http://rossduggan.ie/blog/infrastructure/cnames-how-do-they-work/ Move slow and fix things. Sun, 26 May 2013 13:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wejn http://rossduggan.ie/blog/infrastructure/cnames-how-do-they-work/comment-page-1/#comment-8211 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:25:22 +0000 http://rossduggan.ie/?p=11192#comment-8211 Yes, CNAMEs are somewhat useful for “domain portability”. Except for one little detail…

You can’t cname “rossduggan.ie” itself, thus rendering the usefulness of cnames to almost nil. Because if you want to point somewhere with a cname you’re stuck with 3rd level domains (www.rossduggan.ie and the like).

No way around that. :-/

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