Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to point 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 redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and maintain 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 because it is frequently confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a cloud website hosting through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you will 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 e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to make it happen.