1.
Log in to your cPanel.
2. Navigate to the
Domains section and click on the
Zone Editor menu:
3. Look for the domain name in question from the list and click on the
Manage button to edit its DNS zone:
You'll be redirected to the page from where you can:
Add new DNS recordsTo create new DNS records for your domain, click on the
+ Add Record button:
Further steps depend on the record type you wish to add:
A record AAAA record CAA record CNAME record MX record SRV record TXT record
An A record (Address Record) points a domain or subdomain to an IP address.To create this record for the domain, choose
A in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a domain with an optional period at the end.
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds).
- Record: must be an IP address.
Once all the fields are filled in, click the
Save Record button:
The corresponding video guide will be also helpful for you:
AAAA record, also known as 'IPv6 address record', maps a hostname to a 128-bit IPv6 address in the Domain Name System (DNS). Such an option exists in our Zone Editor menu, but full IPv6 support has not been implemented yet.
To create the record, select
AAAA in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a domain with an optional period at the end.
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds).
- Record: must be an IPv6 address.
Once all the fields are filled in, click the
Save Record button:
A CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) record specifies which certificate authorities (CAs) are allowed to issue certificates for a domain.
To create this record, choose
CAA in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a domain with an optional period at the end.
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds).
- Flag: 0 or 1
- Tag: issue, issuewild or iodef
- Record: must be a valid zone name with the issue and issue wild tags or a valid mailto or standard URL with the iodef tag.
Once all the fields are filled in, click the
Add Record button:
CNAME (Canonical Name) points one domain or subdomain to another domain name, allowing you to update one A Record each time you make a change, regardless of how many Host Records need to resolve to that IP address.
To create the record, choose
CNAME in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a subdomain with an optional period at the end
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds)
- Record: must be a valid zone name
Once all the fields are filled in, click the
Save Record button:
The corresponding video guide will be also helpful for you:
An MX (Mail Exchanger) record specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a domain. This record is essential for email delivery.
To create this record, choose
MX in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a domain with an optional period at the end
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds)
- Priority must be an integer; lower value means more preferred
- Destination: must be a valid zone name
Once all the fields are filled in, click on the
Create Record button:
The corresponding video guide will be also helpful for you:
Choose
SRV in the drop-down menu next to the Type field.
A SRV record points one domain to another domain name using a specific destination port.
To create this record, choose
MX in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: includes the service (the symbolic name of the desired service) and protocol (the Protocol used by the service, usually either TCP or UDP)
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds)
- Priority: priority of the target host, lower value means more preferred
- Weight: relative weight for records with the same priority, a higher value means a more preferred one
- Port: TCP or UDP port on which the service is to be found
- Target: canonical hostname of the machine providing the service, ending in a dot
Once all the fields are filled in, click on the
Create Record button:
The corresponding video guide will be also helpful for you:
TXT records hold a free text form of any type. They historically have also been used to contain human-readable information about a server, network, data center, and other accounting information.
A fully qualified domain may have many TXT records. The most common uses for TXT records are Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys (DK), DomainKeys IdentifiedE-mail (DKIM)and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance).
NB: SPF and DKIM records can be also managed via the
Email Deliverability menu of cPanel.
To create the TXT record, choose
TXT in the drop-down menu next to the "Type" field and fill in the following options:
- Name: must be a domain with an optional period at the end
- TTL: must be a positive integer (in seconds)
- Record: cannot be empty or more than 2500 symbols
Once all the fields are filled in, click on the
Create Record button. The corresponding video guide will be also helpful for you:
Edit existing DNS records
To edit an existing record, choose the record you want to change from the list of existing ones. You can use the "Search" line to look for the needed DNS record.
Once the nedded record is found, click
Edit, enter values that you need to update, and click
Save Record to save changes:
Reset the DNS zone
In case of a reset of your domain DNS zone to a default one, the system will erase any modifications you have made to your zone records in this interface or in the Simple DNS zone editor interface. Before you reset your zone file, make sure that you write down any changes that you wish to save.
To reset a zone file, click on
Actions above the list of DNS records for this particular domain name, and click on
Reset DNS Zone:
