For Ian.com Affiliates Only - How To Create Cnames - A Tutorial

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on my inbox i got this:

Creating a CNAME

1. Contact your hosting company support line.
2. Ask for instructions for creating a CNAME yourself online, or ask for assistance from your hosting company's technical service team.
3. Have them create a new CNAME and point it to travel.ian.com. For instance RESERVATIONS.YOURDOMAIN.COM points to TRAVEL.YOURDOMAIN.COM
4. They may indicate that you must point your CNAME to an IP address. That is most often not necessary, and not always the most desired solution because our IP address can change, but the domain name travel.ian.com will always remain. Have them attempt to point your domain name to the travel.ian.com domain. If you need our IP address, you can run the PING command in your command prompt for travel.ian.com to easily determine our IP address. It is not listed in this article because it may change.
5. Your new CNAME may take up to 24 hours to be completely set up.
6. Once your CNAME is ready for use, you will be able to change our links to use your new CNAME by removing ONLY travel.ian.com from our links and replacing it with your CNAME. For instance, if I were the owner of Orlando.com and my new CNAME: reservations.orlando.com is ready for use, I would take a link such as this one I created in the link generator: http://travel.ian.com/hotels/index.jsp?cid=9999 and change it to http://reservations.orlando.com/hotels/index.jsp?cid=9999. Please note that the remainder of the link (/hotels/index.jsp?cid=9999) MUST stay as it is in order for the link to work properly.

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[jamkid]

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