Setting up DNS records
To to be able to use a registered domain, such as send and receive emails or create a website, you need to create DNS resource records for it. With such records, the domain owner specifies which services should be responsible for the functions of the domain.
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Let's say there's an organization called "My business", and its owner chose the example.com domain for it. They registered the domain with a registrar, and now "My business" owns example.com.
But the domain registration itself doesn't link it to any email service or hosting with the organization's website. To receive emails sent to example.com, the owner must specify the email service details in their domain's settings.
How to configure DNS records
You can manage DNS records:
- In your account on the registrar's website, if the domain is not delegated to Yandex. What does it mean to delegate a domain?
- In your organization's account, if the domain is delegated to Yandex.
The exact steps depend on which registrar is servicing your domain. Check the registrars' knowledge bases for instructions:
DNS records are not updated instantly.
The process may take up to 72 hours.
- Open the organization's account admin.yandex.ru.
- In the menu, select General settings → Domains.
- In the required domain block, click Manage DNS records.
How to set up email records
You can simply delegate the domain to Yandex
You can set up mail DNS records automatically by delegating the domain to Yandex. How to do this?
If you've already delegated the domain, you don't need to additionally configure the email: all the necessary DNS records are created automatically.
For the email to work, you need three records:
| Type | Host | Value | TTL |
|---|---|---|---|
| MX | @ | mx.yandex.net | 21600 |
| TXT | mail._domainkey | {unique key} | 21600 |
| TXT | @ | v=spf1 redirect=_spf.yandex.net | 21600 |
To create, add, and verify each of them, follow the detailed instructions:
How to set up records for a website
If you want the domain to serve as the address of your organization's website, create DNS records of types A and AAAA.
DNS records, or Domain Name System resource records, contain information about a domain and help determine how it's associated with other network resources: to which server it's bound, to which name servers it's delegated, and which mail server it uses. The main types of DNS records are A, NS, MX, and TXT.