Domain Name DNS Management refer to other DNS tools that are available for manipulation by users. These are usually the advanced DNS options that are recommended for advanced users. Some of these tools include;<\/p>\n
CNAME \u2013 ability to add a CNAME to a domain name (CNAME \u2013it\u2019s a short name for Canonical domain name. It\u2019s usually referred to an alias of a domain name. It\u2019s mostly used to map a subdomain like mail, mx, www to the domain hosting the content of that subdomain)<\/p>\n
A record \u2013 ability to add A record to a domain name (A record \u2013 refer to the IP address of the hosting server)<\/p>\n
MX record \u2013 ability to add or change MX record of a particular domain name. (MX record \u2013 refer to address (take the format of a domain name or subdomain)(of the email management server for that particular domain. Important when the email server is different from the web hosting server for a particular domain name.<\/p>\n
TXT record \u2013 usually not available from client area. TXT record refer to text information provided by your domain name system for parties outside your domain name, TXT record usually stores hostname\/zone and therefore it allow storage of additional information. The two major application of TXT record is domain name ownership verification and email security \u2013 prevent spamming.<\/p>\n
Under email security\u00a0 TXT record stores SPF (sender policy Framework) data that prevents anyone sending email and making it appear to have been sent from your domain. Using TXT record you can specify the only IPs that an email on your domain may be sent from, Concept was popularized by Google<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> \u00a0other proponents include WIX<\/a>, Cloudflare<\/a>, Squarespace<\/a>, Godaddy<\/a>, WordPress<\/a>, Benchmarkemail<\/a> \u00a0among others.<\/p>\n Domain Name DNS Management Domain Name DNS Management refer to other DNS tools that are available for manipulation by users. These are usually the advanced DNS options that are recommended for advanced users. Some of these tools include; CNAME \u2013 ability to add a CNAME to a domain name (CNAME \u2013it\u2019s a short name for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078],"tags":[309,310,311],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-a-record","tag-cname","tag-txt-record"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"