Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many possibilities - if you create a company website 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 website by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if 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 forward it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.