Fun with Custom Domain Names

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So I created an account with fine art america and they gave me a custom website domain where they host an online shop.

I found a setting for customizing the address.

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I own ‘moondeer.blog’ and have it configured to point to my Micro.Blog hosted site ‘moondeer.micro.blog’

Feels like I oughta be able to configure the records of ‘moondeer.blog’ (managed by GoDaddy) to make use of my custom domain for something like ‘art.moondeer.blog’ pointing to the fine art america site … but I wanted to pick y’alls brains before messing around with it.

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So I went ahead and messed with it.

I created an A record with art rather than @ set for host that points to the IP fineartamerica gave me.

I also created a CNAME record with www.art rather than www set for host that points to pixels.com (which is where fineartamerica wanted www to point).

Someone holler if this was a bad move.

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A record for subdomain usually right approach, but some providers like GH pages require CNAME for subdomains.

CNAME for www usually just to ‘remove’ www from front.
I think implementing increasingly unnecessary, esp. on top of something that is already a subdomain.

Wa.rner - proud DomainH.ac/ker

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