Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering 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 that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.