Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will allow 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 Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when 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 company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing 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 assist you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.