Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our shared plans is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of options - 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 wish to set up a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.