Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to make it happen.