How do I find and change DNS records in my domain registrar's control panel?

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intermediate · 120 views · asked 8 Jul 2026 · by Tai

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I bought a domain name and a hosting provider has told me to 'point an A record at their IP address' so my website goes live. This is my first time touching DNS.

What You Are Trying to Do

Guidance on where DNS settings usually live in a registrar's dashboard and how to add or edit an A record safely.

What You Have Already Tried

My registrar's control panel has sections called Nameservers, DNS Management, Forwarding, and Glue Records, and I'm not sure which one I need. I'm worried that editing the wrong thing will break my email, which already works on this domain.

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smandebvu7 · 29 Sept 2026

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An A record connects a hostname to an IPv4 address. Edit it in the DNS records area of the provider currently hosting your domain's DNS. That may be your registrar, but it may be a different service: the authoritative nameservers determine where the active records live. Nameserver explanation.

For this task, look for DNS Management or DNS Records. Changing nameservers moves DNS authority; forwarding and glue-record settings are not the place to enter the website's A record. If you cannot identify the active provider, ask your registrar before changing anything.

How do I protect email?

Keep your existing mail records. MX records identify mail servers, and those servers can depend on A or AAAA records. SPF, DKIM and DMARC records also support mail delivery and authentication. Check whether mail depends on the hostname you plan to change: preserving MX alone is not always enough. If uncertain, have your email provider confirm the dependency first. Email record guidance.

Why might I still see the old website?

DNS answers are cached for their TTL. After a correct save, different connections may temporarily see different answers. Repeated edits can make diagnosis harder. How TTL affects updates.

For a provider-specific example, see Cloudflare's record-management workflow.

Steps

  1. Obtain the exact hostname and IPv4 address from your hosting provider. Do not use an example address from a tutorial.
  2. Identify the active DNS provider, select your domain there and open its DNS records.
  3. Save a private copy of the current records and check the email dependencies described above.
  4. Find the A record for the requested hostname. Use your provider's documented notation for the root domain; handle www separately if your host requires it.
  5. Edit that record, or add it if absent, using the supplied address. If another record conflicts or there are multiple existing addresses, check with your host before replacing them.
  6. Keep the existing TTL unless your host directs otherwise, save, and re-read the saved hostname and address.
  7. Allow for caching, then check the website and email. If an incorrect edit caused a failure, restore the recorded previous value and contact the provider; rollback also takes time to reach cached clients.

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