Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally mistaken for the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. 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 with our shared web hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has 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 inside your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.