Working with a "Bare" Domain or Zone Apex on Squixa

We don't ask for control of your DNS in order to implement Squixa.  
We only ask you to make a CNAME record in your DNS which always leaves you with control of your DNS.
To make a CNAME record you will need the www (or similar) subdomain as CNAMEs cannot be set up against the bare domain per the following;

You cannot set a CNAME record for a root domain (e.g., because that would break RFC 1034 section 3.6.2, which states,


You can’t do this for because will also have NS records to make it work which breaks the rule that no other data should be present.

You can have a CNAME record for because this is not the root domain, and therefore it is easy to have no other data present for it.

To deal with a Bare Domain, you have two options:
1. Move to a DNS provider such as DNS Made Easy
DNS Made Easy will let you make an ANAME Record which they introduced specifically for this situation.  see
2. Set up a DNS Redirect from the root domain to a subdomain

You can easily set up in your DNS provider, a redirect on the bare domain to the www, which means you don't need to change any marketing material or external links etc and there will be no SEO impact.

You will need to change;

forwarding to


forwarding to

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