Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.