DNS templates & import

DNS templates & import sets up many DNS records at once. You can apply a template (for example for Google Workspace mail), import a zone file from your old DNS provider, or paste a list of records. You see every change before it is made.

Where: Control Panel › Domains › DNS templates & import

Click a domain in the picker at the top. The screen has three tabs: Templates, Import zone file and Paste records.

Note: if the server does not run DNS, a notice says "DNS is not hosted on this server: records are saved but not published."

How changes are made

Every tab works the same way:

1. Fill in the tab and click Preview.
2. Check the preview: the records to add, to remove and unchanged. Problems are listed under Fix these first: — nothing can be applied while there are any.
3. Click Apply these changes.

The message tells you how many records were added and removed. Changes reach the internet within minutes (up to the TTL).

Note: if the zone was changed (for example in the DNS zone editor) after your preview, the panel says "The zone changed since the preview — preview again."

A zone can have up to 2,000 records.

Apply a template

1. Click the Templates tab and click a template.
2. Check the records the template adds.
3. If the template asks for a value, enter it. It fills in {value} in the records.
4. Click Preview, then Apply these changes.

Each record of a template replaces the records it conflicts with (the same name and type; for TXT the same kind, like SPF). Other records stay.

Templates your hosting provider added are marked From your host.

Import a zone file

Use this to move your DNS here from another provider.

1. Click the Import zone file tab.
2. Choose the Zone file (.zone or .txt, at most 512 KB), or paste it under Or paste it.
3. Choose how to apply the records (see below).
4. Click Preview, then Apply these changes.

Names without a final dot are relative to the zone, as in any zone file. The SOA record and the domain's NS records are skipped: they are set automatically.

Paste records

1. Click the Paste records tab.
2. Paste one record per line: name, TTL (optional), type and value. @ is the domain itself.
3. Choose how to apply the records.
4. Click Preview, then Apply these changes.

shop      CNAME shops.example.net
vpn  300  A     198.51.100.7
@         TXT   "google-site-verification=abc123"
@         MX    20 backup-mx.example.net
- old A

A line that starts with -, such as - old A, removes those records.

How to apply the records

Export a zone file

Click Export zone file at the top to download the domain's zone as a BIND zone file, yourdomain.com.zone. Use it as a backup, or to move the DNS to another provider.

Related

• DNS zone editor
• DNS setup
• Email accounts