DNS Records for Newbies – How To Manage Website Records
DNS Records for Newbies – How To Manage Website Records
In this video, we take a practical look at DNS records and how to manage and edit domain records. Whether you are a web designer, IT professional, freelancer, or someone who has a website and needs to figure out how to manage your domain records, this video will help you out.
This video is a 100% practical look at DNS records with no fluff or extremely technical explanations. By the end of this video, you will know:
– What are DNS records?
– What are the most-common DNS record types?
– What are the differences between NS records, A records, MX , CNAME, and TXT records?
– What’s the difference between a domain registrar and a nameserver?
– How can you easily launch a new website without your email going down?
– What apps or tools can help you find domain records?
– What DNS record types will you need for setting up email with Google Suite / Office 365 / Microsoft Exchange / Zoho?
Like I said, this video covers a lot. The advice here is based on years of real-world experience in managing hundreds of website domains for different clients and their businesses.
Over the past decade, I’ve built and managed websites for hundreds of businesses. With hundreds of websites, that means hundreds of different website domain configurations and DNS record setups.
Accompanying this video is a related blog post that looks at DNS records and DNS record types, with a focus on helping web designers. You can check it out here: https://offsprout.com/blog/all-about-dns-records-for-web-designers/. The companion article is great. It dives into the different DNS record types, components of the records, tools to help you manage your websites’ DNS records, best practices for launching new websites and managing DNS records, and more.
If you’re 100% unfamiliar with what a DNS record is – DNS stand for Domain Name System, which is a database containing information about every website. Where your website lives on the Internet, who is hosting your email, all of that information is contained in DNS records. And when you launch a new website, or add an email service to your domain, you will need to modify your domain’s DNS records to make everything work. This video will help you figure all of that out.
After checking out this video, check out our channel, which has videos on sales for web designers, link-building tactics to get more website traffic, and more.
You can also check out other articles of ours at https://offsprout.com/blog
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Absolutely rocking. All meat and no BS.
I loved your explanation!! I had my domain separate from my hosting company. It’s only when I watched this video that I understood how to insert my hosting company name servers with my domain registrar. Thanks much… 💎💎💋
Dude, that’s was the best explanation tutorial video that I’ve ever watch! Thank you so much!
4:46 NS records (Name server)
7:44 A records (Adress)
12:52 MX records (Mail exchange)
15:28 CNAME records (Canonical name)
17:34 TXT records (Text)
18:50 DNS pitfalls & tools
23:49 Workflow for launching new website
Thanks a lot for the detailed and very nice presentation video It really helped me.
Awesome thank you
How can I request some help if I’m struggling to link my new domain to an already existing free site… I’m lost in terms of adding DNS zones at the website which hosts my domain 😥
Thank you. Nicely explained.
Thanks for a marvellous video. The first clear practical explanation for beginners I’ve seen
Thank you very much. It’s so useful.
If you don’t mind, I have some questions:
Will there be any email loss when moving the domain to a new registrar without changing DNS records?
They say that changing email DNS records will take up to 24 hours to take effect. During that time will there be any email loss? Will there be a time that emails will not get into the old and new destinations.
Thanks dude. I’m a web developer, and don’t know much about the dev ops side of things.
Thank you and God bless you !!!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. You answered many questions for me in a clear manner.
Hi Andy, great video. At 10:05 you show an IPV4 address that is not valid: 123.456.78.9012. As far as I know there can max be 3 digits per segment in an IPV4: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Must be a typo…
how about Ddns records ? how can config that in the server and client ?
we dont need ur face. show us diagrams man
Thank you so very much for this very informative and clearly presented explanation of DNS records. It’s the first time someone has actually clearly explained what an NS is versus the DNS records. For a long time I thought it was the same thing!
A records 7:43
Really great information, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I subscribed and I look forward to future content! Thank you
Hello sir.. I have mistakenly removed AAA text from DNS record.. Will it affect my website? Plzz reply me Sir
Please help I am trying to register my domain name as an LLC but the company that I am using said that there is a company already with a similar name and they want me to change the domain name which I unable to do because GO Daddy said that I have the domain name already. Is there a way I can change the domain name.
Hey pal. if i have centos web panel or ispconfig on gcloud that i want to use to manage everything, then i have freenom domains. how do i connect them?
Hi I am very new to this but under the value it said PARKED and TTL 600 seconds but no IP address
Beautiful explanation
Great work .Thank you.
how I can to IP/wordpress on my vps server?
I am facing a problem between my local domain and website externally all is good the website is accessible. however when I try to access to the website with a machine/post which is in the same company local domain I can’t access it?!!!! could you please tell me why is like that?
FYI locally when I ping to the website I do have ping correctly using the website name and it’s IPs. and I have added Host (A) records which points to the website IPs and Alias (CNAME) which point to the exmaple.com.
thanks a lot in advance for any help you could do.
Great video…..really helpful
Awesome content @OffsproutTV, you mentioned hosting by providers such as GoDaddy, technically you can’t point your A records to a shared web hosting server right? You’ll need a dedicated IP address
i dont understund the diference between CNAME and A records i mean looks like they work the same.
Thank you so much for this comprehensive knowledge about the DSN. It’s very very helpful.
I dont know how to thank you i wish you would upload more videos in the future ………
Such a difficult topic explained in an easy way
Thanks a lot for this!
Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for this. 🙏🏼
Thanks for this amazing video, finally found someone who actually helped , would you mind if i asked a few questions ?
I’m here to learn more about DNS, specifically, about A records because I felt so bullied at work for not understanding the backend of website development. Fairly new with this and you have helped me understand these terms so easily. Thank you very much for the help.
excellent tutorial! best one i have found so far. Thanks a lot for this one 🙂
Great video, very informative. Thank you!
Can I have mail hosting provider and no web hosting provider?