Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another company if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have created a site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.