Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name 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 some other company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared hosting with our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company emails, and 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 can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to get it done.