Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is often confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.