• When setting up a CNAME record, you are basically creating a subdomain

IMPORTANT:

To better understand the concept of subdomains, let’s check the anatomy of this domain: www.wellness.com

• The “.com” is the top-level domain

• And the business name “wellness” is the second-level domain

• The part of a domain that displays before the first dot of the business name is a subdomain, that’s right! The “www” is a subdomain

• But you don’t have to use “www” as your subdomain, as you can use any word or phrase you want to create a unique web address (without having to purchase a new domain), like using the word quiz or survey

• Subdomains act as an extension of a domain that you already own

Step #1: Access Your Domain Settings

1. Within a specific Cloudflare account and domain, go to DNS.

2. Select Add record.

3. Select CNAME record.

1. Name: A subdomain or the root domain, which must:

1. Be 63 characters or less

2. Start with a letter and end with a letter or digit

3. Only contain letters, digits, or hyphens (underscores allowed but discouraged)

4. For example, the name could be the word quiz, funnel, go, etc

2. Target: domains.bucket.io

3. TTL: defaults to one hour so you can leave it as is (TTL determines how long the server should cache information)

4. Click Save to confirm your record.

5. Make sure to disable to Proxied status (orange cloud). Click on the orange cloud to change this configuration to DNS only (gray cloud with an arrow passing on top)

Step #2: Access your bucket.io account

• Click My Account from the top-right corner

• Click Custom Domains from the left-hand menu

• Click the Add custom domain green button

• A configuration guideline will pop up, click the Continue button

• Insert the domain name as [the name you put in [Cloudflare] + [your domain name], for example, quiz.wellness.com

• Click the Create & Verify Domain button

• It should display as “Verifying”. The verification process could take up to 5 minutes and should change to “Verified” status