Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a shared plan from our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to set up 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 decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to do it.