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DNS Routing • Sep 2026

CNAME vs ALIAS vs ANAME Records: Apex Domain Flattening Guide

Learn why RFC specifications forbid CNAME records at the domain apex (@) and how ALIAS flattening solves it.


Resolving Apex Domain Canonical Names

While standard CNAME records override all other record types at the root, CNAME flattening and ALIAS records synthesize dynamically resolved A records at the domain apex.