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 records;
• Edit existing DNS records;
• Reset the DNS zone.

Add new DNS records

To 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

• A 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

AAAA record, also known as 'IPv6 address record', maps a hostname to a 128-bit IPv6 address in the Domain Name System (DNS). This option is available in our Zone Editor menu; however, full IPv6 support has not been implemented yet. This means our shared servers do not currently have IPv6 addresses. Still, if you want to create an IPv6 record for your domain or subdomain to point it to a server that provides and supports IPv6, it will work correctly.

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:

• CAA record

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 record

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:

• MX record

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:

• SRV record

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 record

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:

That's it!