Category: DNS

Certificate Authority Authorisation (CAA) records let you specify which Certificate Authorities (CA) are allowed to issue SSL certificates for your domain. The record can help…

When you migrate a website to a new server you need to test the website on the new server before updating the DNS. This article…

The domain name system, or DNS, is a networking system that translates human-friendly names to IP addresses. It is what enables you to point your…

Each domain should have a number of DNS records that define, among others, how website and email traffic are routed. This article looks at the…

DNS is quite flexible. If you want you can host your website on one server and your email on another. This article looks at three…

An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record specifies which IP addresses are allowed to sent mail for your domain. This article looks at how SPF records…

Like SPF records, DKIM records are used to check if an email was sent from a server that is allowed to send mail for a…

DMARC is short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. As the name suggests, DMARC records enable a few different things:

When you add a DMARC record for your domain you can choose to receive aggregate reports and/or failure reports. This article explains what information is…

There are various tools you can use to check a domain’s DNS records. In this article I look at cPanel’s Track DNS feature, a couple…