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Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

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Paul_Johnson
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Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

Hey team,

we currently use pages.domainname for the CNAME of our landing pages. Can you take off the CNAME and simply use domainname.com for marketo landing pages?

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Re: Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

No.

A DNS zone apex (a.k.a. shortest private suffix, like example.com or example.co.uk) can't also appear in a CNAME record. It could appear on the left-hand-side of an A record, but it would then have to point to an IP address. Since Marketo requires that you point to a *.mktoweb.com hostname to manage their infrastructure, this isn't possible.

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Re: Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

No.

A DNS zone apex (a.k.a. shortest private suffix, like example.com or example.co.uk) can't also appear in a CNAME record. It could appear on the left-hand-side of an A record, but it would then have to point to an IP address. Since Marketo requires that you point to a *.mktoweb.com hostname to manage their infrastructure, this isn't possible.

Josh_Hill13
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

An alternative is to

  1. Paste Marketo Forms onto your main website using Embed Code
  2. Create custom Forms that use the API to inject leads into Marketo (or a third db that is connected).