Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.