Escape at symbol in CNAME target

[tannercomes]

Hey all. I’m having trouble finding this via search because “At” and “@” don’t play well with searching websites. So please forgive me if this is already a topic.

I’d like to add a CNAME record for a subdomain of my site (blog.tanner.com.es) to redirect to Tanner Comes – Medium. My problem is @ is being immediately replaced by the domain “tanner.com.es”, like so:

I’ve tried escaping it (, “”, ‘’) with no success.

How do I escape the at sign in a CNAME Target?

Thanks!

[sdayman]

CNAME won’t work as a redirect. Try this:

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[tannercomes]

Thank you. That did the trick!