Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is generally confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a cloud hosting through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.