Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you have 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 and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our web hosting plans is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various options - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.