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Admax Hosting AB · web hosting in Sweden since 1996Published 31 March 2026
A CNAME, or Canonical Name, is an alias used when you want to point one domain address to another domain address.
For example, www.mydomain.se might point to a CNAME that is the hostname of the server where the website is hosted.
www CNAME da103.admax.se. is one example.
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