id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone version resolution keywords cc 55 Extend record management to permit CNAMEs to be handled as the root domain Kris Deugau "Bulk, high-availability hosting is increasingly relying on CNAMEs for spreading the load, fault tolerance, and easy migration of a site from one underlying system to another. DNS, strictly speaking, does not support a CNAME on the domain name itself, so DNSAdmin has had restrictions added to prevent this foot-shooting. However, this means you still have to hack something up to redirect web requests for the root domain to www.. Cloudflare recently introduced a feature in their DNS management that replaces a CNAME on the root domain with the underlying A record data on the fly: http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root This requires patching the DNS server software, so it's not likely to show up elsewhere any time soon. However, with a management tool like this, there's little reason not to push the automatic conversion to an A record up a layer, and do it on export from the database to the live DNS records." enhancement new minor 1.4.1