Record for www Prefix - vercel

I have a web app built with Nuxt 3, which I am hosting on Vercel, and a domain that I bought from Google Domains.
I have an A record with domain.com as its hostname, a TTL of one hour, and the IP address from the Vercel dashboard. This works.
However, I did not manage to set up www.domain.com as well. What I currently have (does not work) is a CNAME record with the name * and the value cname.vercel-dns.com. - also taken from the Vercel dashboard. I also tried the value www instead, but both variants simply do nothing. When I try to connect to www.domain.com - even after waiting multiple days to make sure the changes took effect - my browser simply tells me that it cannot connect to this address.

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In general, you add a (sub)domain by:
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Please keep in mind that you want to add an A record (this is important!).