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I prefer naked domains, but the problem I always have is that you can only use A records which makes using them with a bunch of things a pain in the butt. I hos

by snuxoll 10y ago

I prefer naked domains, but the problem I always have is that you can only use A records which makes using them with a bunch of things a pain in the butt. I host my personal website as just a tumblr blog (yes, go ahead and laugh, but I find it less of a chore to deal with than wordpress) so I need a CNAME to make that work, so I just have a very basic redirect on the naked domain to my blog subdomain.

prashnts 10y ago
You can set an A record to 66.6.44.5 [0]. [0] https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/blog_management#customdomain https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/blog_management#customdomain
bschwindHN 10y ago
Cloudflare offers something called CNAME flattening which will let you define a CNAME record for the naked domain. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc...
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