Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our shared web hosting plans is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.