Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential 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 domain name being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website using a different provider that 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 a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.