title: How to create an alternative name for Azure Website?
body: <p>Lets assume we have a domain name for our Azure website called "myOrders.com" which is hosted on a domain service where we have configured a CName record to point to our Azure Website ie:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myorders.com -&gt; myorders-app1.azurewebsites.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>We recently had this domain service fail, so nobody could access our site. We were trying to work out the best workaround while the domain service returned to service which it now has. I did not feel comfortable handing out "myorders-app1.azurewebsites.com" to our customers either. My only thought on this was to register another domain with another domain service ie </p>
  
  <pre><code>myorders-app.com -&gt; myorders-app1.azurewebsites.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this this the right approach to circumventing domain service failures?</p>
  
  <p>My other idea was to rename our azurewebsite instance to something more friendly, but I cannot see how this can be done, and then it still would have "azurewebsites.com" as the domain.</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate an advice on this.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>