Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a web hosting with our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain 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 want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a click to do it.