What is A record?
The short answer
An A record is a DNS record that points a domain name to a server's IPv4 address; AAAA does the same for IPv6.
A record, explained
Root domains (example.com) commonly use A records pointed at the host's address.
Questions people ask about A record
What is A record?
An A record is a DNS record that points a domain name to a server's IPv4 address; AAAA does the same for IPv6.
Related terms
DNS is the internet's address book: it translates a domain name like example.com into the IP address of the server that hosts the site.
CNAME recordA CNAME record is a DNS record that makes one domain name an alias of another, commonly used to point www or a subdomain at a hosting provider.
NameserversNameservers are the servers that hold a domain's DNS records; changing them at the registrar hands control of all the domain's DNS to another provider.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
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