Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our shared website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website using a different company 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 an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.