Record
One line in your DNS: a type, a name and a value
Words that go with it
- A recordPoints a name to an IP address
- Apex (or root)The domain with nothing in front: kofimensah.com. www.kofimensah.com is a subdomain
- CNAME recordPoints a name to another name, like a nickname
- DNS providerThe company that keeps your page of the phone book (Cloudflare)
- MX recordSays which mail server handles email for a name
- NameserversThe computers that answer DNS questions for your domain. Set at the registrar
- PropagationThe time it takes for a change to reach everyone
- RegistrarThe company you rent the domain from (Hostinger)
- ResolverThe "librarian" that looks up DNS answers for your phone or laptop
- TTLHow long resolvers may remember a record
- TXT recordA piece of text, mostly used to prove you own the domain