Domains and DNS
Primary keyword: what is a cname record · Intent: informational · One URL, one query. Not a city doorway.
A CNAME is an alias. It is not mail, and it is not the website files.
This article is written for people searching what is a cname record (informational intent). It is not a city doorway and not a ranking package. Product facts we will defend: Free is live on you.bizzit.io after Google sign-in, 50 Cipher turns, no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month. First-year domain names bought here carry a 25% markup. We do not invent competitor prices or statistics.
CNAME is the record people mean when they say “point my domain at the site.” It says this hostname is an alias of another hostname. On Bizzit, you typically point www — or another host your DNS allows — at slug.bizzit.io so browsers fetch the site we host. It does not move email. MX records are a different job. Mixing them is how you break hello@ while “fixing” the website. Custom domain is a Pro line at $12 a month. Free stays on you.bizzit.io. We do not ask you to become a DNS engineer, but you should know CNAME versus MX so you do not paste a random screenshot from a forum into the wrong product.
A CNAME record makes a hostname an alias of another hostname. To show a Bizzit site on a name you own, CNAME that host to slug.bizzit.io. Do not touch MX unless you intend to change mail. Custom domain requires Pro at $12 a month.
Who this is for
Someone who owns a domain or is about to buy one and needs the website to answer on that name. If that is not you, a different Bizzit guide will fit better — do not force this URL.
The actual answer
Website pointing and email pointing are different records. Bizzit tells you the CNAME target: the tenant host. Your DNS host is where you click. Propagation waits on TTL, not on hope. The short version is still the one in the box at the top of this page. The rest of the article exists so you do not have to guess the limits.
Do this in order
Follow the steps. Skip the ones that are not your job. Do not add extra tools as if they were required SKUs.
- Be on Pro if you want the custom name
- Copy the target we show: slug.bizzit.io
- In your DNS host, add CNAME for the host you chose (often www)
- Do not edit MX for this job
- Wait for TTL
- Load the name in a private window
What not to do
Do not CNAME the apex if your DNS host cannot do ALIAS/ANAME — use www or follow their apex docs. Do not copy Cloudflare steps if you are on a registrar panel. Do not flatten mail. That is the usual way a useful page turns into a doorway, a fake comparison, or a brief Cipher cannot honor.
How this shows up on Bizzit
Free is live on you.bizzit.io after Google sign-in: 50 Cipher turns, no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month for unlimited Cipher, a custom domain, overnight jobs from the brief, checkout on your payment account with no Bizzit sales cut, and no badge. First-year domains bought here carry a 25% markup. We do not invent SKUs we have not shipped. Create is where you brief Cipher. Pricing is public. Tools are public pages that do a job — they are not a second SKU you must buy.
Limits
We are not your DNS host. If their UI uses different labels, follow their docs. We will not click their buttons for you from this article.
Limits and caveats
We are not your DNS host. If their UI uses different labels, follow their docs. We will not click their buttons for you from this article.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here. That is how this library stays useful instead of becoming spun SERP copies.
What Bizzit will and will not do
You describe the business. Cipher builds a site. You preview it. You publish on a Bizzit hostname for free after Google sign-in. Free includes 50 Cipher turns with no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month for unlimited Cipher edits, a custom domain, overnight jobs from the brief, checkout on your payment account, no Bizzit badge. Domain names you buy here show a first-year price with a 25% markup on the registrar wholesale. We do not take a cut of your sales. We are not a CRM, a dispatcher, or a review factory. If a sentence would require us to pretend we shipped a feature we have not shipped, it does not belong on this page.
Cost: the slug is free. The name is $12 a month plus the domain.
Stay on you.bizzit.io until the page is doing work. Twelve months of Pro is $144. The registrar line is separate. Cancel Pro from the account if the month is dead; the domain you bought is still yours to keep or let lapse. Read pricing and cancel anytime before you treat $12 as a personality.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business — not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Domains and DNS. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Primary keyword for this page: what is a cname record. That is the query we wrote for. Related links below are neighboring intents, not doorway clones.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Is CNAME the same as A record?
No. A points to an IP. CNAME points to a hostname. We give you a hostname: slug.bizzit.io.
Will this break email?
Not if you leave MX alone. If you replace MX with a CNAME on the wrong host, mail breaks. That is on the record you edited.
How long does it take?
TTL. Minutes to hours. We do not invent a 24-hour law. Check in a private window to skip your cache.
Can I do this on Free?
Custom domain is Pro. Free is the Bizzit hostname.
What query is this URL for?
The primary keyword is “what is a cname record”. Neighboring links are other intents. We do not mint a city clone for the same offer.