Domain name resolution tutorial: Cloudflare resolution and DNSPod resolution

After purchasing a domain name, you need to resolve your domain name to your IP before you can use your domain name instead of the IP normally. This article is a detailed domain name resolution tutorial. Taking NameSilo as an example, it introduces NameSilo's own domain name resolution, as well as foreign Cloudflare domain name resolution and mainland China's DNSPod domain name resolution.

Introduction to domain name resolution

The NS record (Name Server) of a domain name refers to the host that handles domain name resolution. To put it bluntly, it is who resolves your domain name. Generally, after purchasing a domain name, the default NS record points to the domain name provider (for example, NameSilo resolves it by itself by default). You can modify the NS record of the domain name so that it is resolved by a different resolution service provider, such as pointing to Cloudflare or DNSPod.

After DNS (Domain Name System), commonly used DNS records include A records, CNAME, and MX records in domain name resolution. The domain name A record is also called IP pointing, which means what IP your domain name represents; the domain name CNAME refers to the alias pointing, which means pointing to another domain name. For example, you can set test.vpsgo.com to point to www.vpsgo.com; the MX of the domain name The record is the email exchange record, which needs to be set up as an email host. This article mainly introduces domain name A record analysis.

The following takes NameSilo as an example to introduce how to use its own domain name resolution and how to add resolution records when modified to Cloudflare and DNSPod resolution. NameSilo is a foreign domain name service provider that Lao Wang prefers. It supports Alipay, the price is cheap, and the renewal price does not increase. It also comes with free domain name privacy protection. For details, please refer to a previous article: NameSilo discount code usage and registration tutorial, support Alipay.

Comes with a tutorial on parsing settings

General domain name registrars will come with their own resolution, which means you can directly resolve domain names (add A records, CNAME, MX records, etc.) without modifying NS records. Take NamSilo as an example.

Log in to the NameSilo official website, click Manage My Domains in the upper right corner, then select the domain name you want to modify, and click the blue button (Manage DNS for the domain):

After that, you can see the default resolution of the domain name. NameSilo will dock it to its own parking service by default. You can delete all these resolution records:

Then add your own domain name resolution record. For example, here I add an A record pointing to IP43.34.43.34:

After setting this up, accessing www.vpsgo.com means accessing IP43.34.43.34.

External parsing setting tutorial

Using an external resolution host to add domain name resolution generally involves two steps:

Modify NS records

Log in to the NameSilo official website, click Manage My Domains in the upper right corner, select the domain name you want to modify the NS record, and click Change Nameservers to modify the NS record:

NameSilo has 3 NS records by default. You only need to delete these 3 records, modify them to what you want to modify, and then submit:

Cloudflare parsing settings

Cloudflare is a frequently used foreign NS service provider. It also provides 15-year SSL certificates and free CDN, and can also protect against DDoS attacks.

First register a Cloudflare account (https://www.cloudflare.com). After registration, click Add a Site on the homepage to add a site:

Then enter your domain name, for example my city is vpsgo.com:

Cloudflare offers many plans, both free and paid. The free one is fine for personal use:

After confirming the plan, Cloudflare will scan the current DNS records of the domain name. You can keep, add, or delete:

The next step is to modify the NS record. Just go to your domain name registrar to modify the NS record (how to modify the NS record in NameSilo, please refer to: Modify the NS record). Finally, just wait for it to take effect. Generally, the modification can be successful in about half an hour. You can then use Cloudflare to manage your domain name resolution.

After the NS record modification takes effect, add your domain name resolution A record under Cloudflare’s DNS:

DNSPod resolution settings

DNSPod is a NS service provider commonly used in mainland China. Tencent Cloud uses DNSPod by default. If you want to use domain name resolution services in mainland China, you can also use DNSPod.

Log in to the DNSPod official website (https://www.dnspod.cn), click Add Domain Name -> Enter your domain name:

You will be prompted to modify the NS record of the domain name:

Finally, just wait for it to take effect. Generally, the modification can be successful in about half an hour (for how to modify NS records in NameSilo, please refer to: Modify NS records). After that, you can use DNSPod to manage your domain name resolution.

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