Supported DNS Record Types

Table of Contents

• Supported Records
• Limitations

The Domain Name System (DNS) is composed of several record types called resource records. DNSimple supports most common and traditional record types, as well some newer types introduced to provide innovative services like DNS Certification Authority Authorization.

Supported Records

We support the following standard record types:

• A
• AAAA
• CAA (see note below)
• CNAME
• HINFO
• MX
• NAPTR
• NS
• PTR
• SRV
• SPF
• SSHFP
• TXT

We also created 3 proprietary record types:

• ALIAS
• URL
• POOL

We support additional record types used behind the scenes to provide various DNS features:

• We automatically create the SOA record for you when you add a domain.
• We create DS and DNSKEY records when you enable DNSSEC on a domain

Limitations