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I would like to direct to my blog website the www and @ records from my domain.

Is it possible to have the 1 site respond to both names?

in fact I can see a use for subdomain management in general being useful for various applications.

I don't suppose wildcard or regex domain names are going to be possible?

Right now you have to create a separate web app entry for each, but I'll add an upvote in our tracker.

What do you mean by directing the @ record?

the @ A record is the zones domain name.

e.g for the zone google.com

@ A 1.2.3.4

would direct requests for http://google.com/

What I want to do is have both of

• http://cjbarnes18.me.uk
• http://www.cjbarnes18.me.uk

go to my site.

Allowing a list of aliases for a given site is probably enough flexibility for this kind of use case.

But if you where to allow any subdomain to be directed, that adds significant scope for applications.

Forgive my lack of knowledge of DNS. We usually suggest people redirect the "naked" domain to www. But point taken re multiple subdomains...

If you dig cjbarnes18.me.uk you will see that it is a CNAME so directing the naked domaine is possible, and is in fact the @ hostname.

Problem is some of the redirection services arent so great. I had to jump trough a few loops to get 123-reg to do it the way I wanted last time I tried (that was some time ago).

I think the "no CNAME" thing is sorta-kinda implicit in the DNS spec -- that is, it's not specifically part of it, but it is implied by the way certain other things work. IIRC the problem is related to MX records for email. But I see what you mean re: cjbarnes18.me.uk, that's certainly set up OK.

We've upvoted the multiple subdomain idea, anyway. That's definitely doable, though it would require some light rearchitecting on our site.

Put my name down for subdomains too. Not that I need it right this instant, but NOT having the option could potentially cause issues down the road.

Sure, I've made a note.