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<p>Hi</p>
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<p>I've searched this forum for the issue I have, and there are quite a lot questions similar to mine, but non of given answers worked for me.</p>
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<p>I have a domain, registered outside the dynadot.com, lets name it mydomain.com</p>
<p>I'm using dynadot.com only for a simple hosting, but on registration it did not let me to enter <b>mydomain.com</b>, it automatically added <b>www</b> subdomain.</p>
<p>OK, but for now, my site opens with URL <b>www.mydomain.com</b> and if I type <b>mydomain.com</b> it redirects me to <b>www.mydomain.com</b></p>
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<p><i>Solutions that should work in my case, but they do not:</i></p>
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<p>1) Adding <b>.htaccess</b> file. I've updated the file according to usage for <b>mydomain.com</b>, uploaded the file to server.</p>
<p>For now the <b>www.mydomain.com</b> still works and do not redirect me to anywhere, but <b>mydomain.com</b> now could not be found.</p>
<p>As far as I know such a rule like redirecting using .htaccess works locally on the "last instance" server and do not require global DNS to be updated (which may take a few hours or even a day), so this should work instantly. Correct me if I' wrong.</p>
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<p>2) Adding CNAME somewhere in "Domains -> manage" section of dashboard.</p>
<p>Since mydomain.com is not registered using dynadot service, the list of "Domains" is empty for me, and there is nothing I can even try to setup for my domain.</p>
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<p>Update: after 12 hours <b>www.mydonain.com</b> redirects to <b>mydomain.com</b>, but <b>mydomain.com</b> is unavailable. So my web site is completely unreachable right now.</p>

Basic Hosting will always redirect to the www subdomain.  There is no way around this at this time.