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CNAME for non-www domain name?

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Hello all,

I've got a domain name - alastairmoore.com - which I want to point to my github.io pages account. I've got the www.alastairmoore.com domain pointing using a CNAME but need to create a CNAME record for the non-www version of my domain name. Can anyone suggest how this can be done?

Many thanks,

welly

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We do not allow CNAMEs on the root of a DNS zone, as they violate the DNS specs (CNAMEs cannot coexist with any other record types for a given hostname, and the root must have other records).

You'd need to use an A/AAAA record for the root of the zone.

  • Les

https://help.github.com/articles/settin … ex-domains">https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages#apex-domains

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