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It is unlikely people are using CNAME for the direct record (e.g. domain.com) since this does not work with the majority of DNS providers. It can work in theory
by lathiat 8y ago
It is unlikely people are using CNAME for the direct record (e.g. domain.com) since this does not work with the majority of DNS providers. It can work in theory but only if your DNS server has no other records (e.g. SOA, NS, etc) which is not usually the case. In most cases providers like this use a CNAME for 'www' and give IP addresses for the root domain. Which is exactly what medium did according to a couple of posts I found talking about the process.
In all reality that is probably not the actual reason they're deprecating it just a side note or poor excuse attempt.
Shame to see this feature go, but it reduced marketing for medium itself, so I was always surprised by it. Does seem to remove product value though in terms of something people would pay for. So may hurt revenue potentially?