Hosts Records

The Hosts Records section allows you to create various kinds of host records for your zone file, including URL redirects, A records, CNAME aliases, SPF/Text records and other address records. If you wish to enable forwarding for the domain, you may do so using this process, or you may use the Easy Domain Forwarding feature to place the records automatically.

To enable the Advanced DNS Manager and access the Host Records screen, complete the following steps:

1. Log in to your profile.
2. Click Account Management > My Domains on the menu bar.
3. Under My Domains, click the domain that you wish to manage.
4. Click on "Hosts Records" link
5. If this is your first time using Advanced DNS Manager, you will have to enable the service first. Click Enable DNS Manager, and your nameservers will be automatically set to those required by the system. Please note that this process may take a moment to reach the Host Records table.
6. Once the service has been enabled, you will be presented with the Hosts Records interface where you can begin configuring your custom DNS settings.

Result:

Hosts:

This section describes some of the tasks that you can accomplish on the Host Records page, as well as what each available record can do. In addition to configuring records for unique tasks, you can set records to point to a third party hosting provider, forward a domain or subdomain to an existing site, or configure subdomains to point to internal pages.

You can configure the following records in the Host Records section:

• A (Address) - A record that points to a specific IP address
• AAAA (IPv6) - A record that points to a specific IPv6 address
• CNAME (Alias) - A record that configures a subdomain to act as an alias of an existing host.
• URL Redirect - A record that establishes a 302 Redirect to send a user to a specified URL.
• URL Frame - A record that creates a frame for the website before performing a redirect. This record acts as a redirect, but permits the address field to maintain the original domain or subdomain.
• Text - A record that places a string within the zone file. This is typically used for setting verification strings or any other kind of instructional data such as SPF or DMARC for the domain.

Notes:

In addition to the records above, you can enter SRV records by clicking the SRV link that appears below the table. An SRV record defines the location of servers for specified services. We will build the record for you from several fields: Service, Protocol, Priority, Weight, Port and Target (Hostname). Please note that the Time To Live (TTL) and Class fields are set by us.

The Host Records Table

This section describes the operation of the Host Record table and how to place any needed records.

For Hostname, you have the following options:

• @ - signifies your domain name alone without anything in front of it. eg: yourdomain.com
• www - signifies your domain name preceeded by a 'www'. eg: www.yourdomain.com
• To create a specific subdomain, enter its name. eg: 'members' creates a subdomain members.yourdomain.com
1. In the Address area, you can specify either an IP address or a full URL. For domain forwarding, we require that you specify a full URL including the "http://" or "https://". CNAME records do not require the "http://" to be added before the target host value.

Notes:

In order for this feature to work, you domain name must be pointing to the correct name servers.

MX Records are entered or edited on the "Email Services" interface. Any MX records set will also appear in the main hosts records.

CNAME records and MX records contain a period at the end of the address. Our system will add this automatically to any record entered.

Our system does not have support for a wildcard (*). In addition, our system does not support PTR records at this time.

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