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  mgwdesign · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 6:44 pm

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  Hi

  I am planing to open an ecommerce website with other service, but i want it to be as a sub domain of my http://www.panamahipster.com that i have hosted with wordpress.com, is it posible that i buy a sub domain with worpress.com (Example store.panamahipster.com) and transfer the DNS to the ecommerce website ? or what will be the right way to do this ?

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  Marcel

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 11:31 am

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  Hi Marcel,

  You don’t actually need to buy anything else to create a subdomain of your domain panamahipster.com. Instead, you can use custom DNS to point a subdomain to another site. We have information about how to edit your domain’s custom DNS here: Custom DNS

  To set up a subdomain, you can enter a CNAME record in this format:

  CNAME <subdomain> <host>.

  Since you want to create the subdomain store.panamahipster.com, your CNAME record will be:

  CNAME store <host>.

  The <host> value depends on the address of your ecommerce website. If you have any questions about what to enter there, you’ll need to contact your ecommerce service to get that value. You can tell them that you’re trying to set up a subdomain pointing to your ecommerce website and you need the information to create a CNAME record for that.

  If you have any questions, please let me know! :)