forwarding "@" to a different domain?

[Jukka Pakkanen]

8.1.2012 20:46, Jukka Pakkanen kirjoitti:
> 8.1.2012 19:02, enigmedia (onl) kirjoitti:
>> On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:00:07 +0200 Jukka Pakkanen 
>> <jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi> wrote
>>
>>> www in cname mydomain.myshopify.com.
>>> mydomain.com. in cname 
>> mydomain.myshopify.com.
>>>
>>> Is this what you are looking for?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but I thought you couldn't use a cname for the root record of 
>> the domain?
>
> Oh yeas... I confused this to pointing the domain to an IP address / A 
> record.
>
> Is an A record pointing to the server and a dedicated IP address there 
> an option?

Of course don't need to be dedicated address either, but that's the way 
we usually do it.  Helps with the ptr records.