Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable 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 domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared web hosting package with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can 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 just a click to do it.