Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that 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 it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is regularly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming you have created a website with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built a site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.