Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of another company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, 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 set up CNAME records if you have a cloud hosting with our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find 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'll require literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.