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Paul_Johnson
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July 14, 2017
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Do you need a CNAME on landing pages?

  • July 14, 2017
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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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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

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
SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
New Participant
July 14, 2017

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
New Participant
July 17, 2017

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).