Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will permit you to forward 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 name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our shared web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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 are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.