Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

[Paul_Johnson]

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?

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

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]

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).