Managing your domain's DNS records

You manage the DNS records for every domain you have with us yourself. Changes go to our name servers immediately. How quickly they take effect everywhere depends on the TTL of the previous record.

Available record types

Type	Purpose
A / AAAA	Name points to an IPv4 or IPv6 address, for example your server
CNAME	Name is an alias for another name
MX	Mail server of the domain
TXT	Verifications for services, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
SRV	Services with a port, for example for games, telephony or chat
CAA	which certificate authorities may issue certificates
NS	delegating a subdomain to other name servers
TLSA	DANE: publishing your server's certificate in DNS

You set the TTL per record. Records that belong to your plan, for example for your website and mailboxes, are displayed and maintained by us.

Email security wizards

• SPF: defines which servers may send on behalf of your domain.
• DKIM: publishes the public key for the signature of your emails.
• DMARC: tells receiving servers what to do with emails without a valid signature.
• DANE: generates the TLSA record from your server's certificate.

You fill in a few fields and the wizard writes the record in the correct format.

Common tasks

• Pointing a domain to your own server: an A record for @ and www with the IP address of the server. With a vServer from us, it is even simpler: connect the domain to the server, and we set the records ourselves and update them when the IP address changes.
• Verifying a service (for example Google Search Console, Microsoft 365): a TXT record with the value provided by the service.
• Using an external email provider: MX records pointing to the provider's servers, plus SPF and DKIM via the wizards.
• Game server under your own name: an SRV record, if the game supports it (for example Minecraft: _minecraft._tcp).

See also: View domains Email with your own domain Overview of all customer portal features