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DNS management

Last updated: May 22, 2026

American Cloud's DNS Manager lets you create DNS zones and manage records for your domains directly from the portal. It supports the common record types: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, SRV, and CAA.

Understanding DNS

DNS attaches human-readable domain names to machine-usable IP addresses. Instead of needing to know the IP address of the website you are navigating to, you can enter https://americancloud.com for example.

Register the domain

American Cloud is not a domain registrar, but the DNS Manager works with any registrar (for example, GoDaddy, BlueHost, or HostGator). Register your domain there first, then point its name servers at American Cloud as described in Use American Cloud's name servers.

Create a DNS zone

  1. In the left navigation, under Networking, select DNS.
  2. In the top right of the DNS zones page, click + Create Zone.
DNS zones page in the portal with the Create Zone button
  1. On the Create DNS zone page, enter your domain in the Domain name field (for example, exampledomain.com — no www. prefix).
  2. Click Create Zone.
Create DNS zone page with Domain name field and Create Zone button

The new zone is created with two default NS records pointing at American Cloud's name servers.

New DNS zone page showing default NS records

Add DNS records

DNS records associate domain names with information such as a server's IP address or a mail server. American Cloud supports the following record types:

  • A and AAAA
  • CNAME
  • MX
  • TXT
  • NS
  • SOA
  • SRV
  • CAA

To add a record:

  1. From the DNS zones page, click the zone you want to manage.
  2. In the Records section, click + Add Record.
  3. Choose the record Type, enter the Name, TTL, and Value, then save.

To change or remove a record, use the [edit] or [delete] links on its row.

DNS zone detail page showing Add Record button and edit/delete actions on each record

If you are migrating to American Cloud from another DNS provider, add all of the necessary records here before pointing your domain's registrar at American Cloud's name servers.

Use American Cloud's name servers

Once your records are in place, set American Cloud's name servers as the authoritative name servers for your domain. Log in to your domain registrar's control panel and set the name servers for your domain to:

  • ns1.americancloud.org
  • ns2.americancloud.org

See your registrar's documentation for the exact steps.

Delete a DNS zone

To remove a zone, open it from the DNS zones page and click [delete zone] in the top right.

Note: Deleting a zone removes all of its records. If the zone is still authoritative for a live domain, queries will fail until you update the registrar.