### Adding a DNS Template

To add a DNS template:

1. Click Domain Manager on the Operations Director submenu.
2. Select DNS Templates from the Domain Manager submenu. The list of DNS templates (if any) appears on the screen.
3. Click the New DNS Template button.
4. Fill the form that appears:
   1. Type the DNS template name (any alphanumerical identifier you consider convenient) into the Title field.
   2. Specify the number of records you want to add: Select the number of empty fields to be displayed from the Create drop-down menu at the bottom of the form and then click the Display button. Then fill the fields for each record as this described below (items c - f).
   3. You can type the sub-domain name into the Name field. Since the form we are talking about is designed for adding different types of records, we can say that the Name field should contain the subject of the query, e.g., the address you want to use as your Internet e-mail address (for MX record), or the alias name (for CNAME record), etc. However, to avoid any mistakes, please remember that:

      - If you leave the Name field empty, the record will affect just the original domain name, not a sub-domain. In this case, after you save the record you will see the @ symbol in the record name column.

      - If you type the @ symbol into the Name field, this will mean the same as described above.

      - If you type the sub-domain with the trailing dot into the Name field (e.g., subdomain.domain.com.) the record will affect the sub-domain named subdomain.domain.com.

      - If you type the sub-domain without the trailing dot into the Name field, (e.g., subdomain.my), the domain name indicated in this record (i.e., the contents of the Host field for example, domain.com) will be automatically appended to the record name and, as a result the record will affect the sub-domain named subdomain.my.domain.com.

      Note: You can use the %domain% placeholder in the Name field. The placeholder will be later automatically substituted with the actual name of a domain being registered. For example, subdomain.%domain%.

   4. Select the type of the resource record (A, NS, MX, or CNAME) from the DNS type drop-down menu. Please see the short description of the record types in the beginning of this section. For more information, please refer to the DNS documentation, for example, you can look at the Web.
   5. The Priority field becomes active if you select the MX record type only. The MX record priority is the digit within the range from 0 to 65535. The lower number is the higher is Mail Exchanger priority. If several MX records of different priorities were added, then mail is routed to to the lowest priority Mail Exchanger (with the greatest priority value), if it does not respond, then the higher priority Mail Exchanger is being used (with less priority value), and so on, up to the highest priority Mail Exchanger (with the least priority value).
   6. In the Host field you should indicate the answer to the query. Records are always read from left to right, with the subject to be queried about on the left and the answer to the query on the right. For example, for MX record you should indicate the mail server name, for CNAME record - the canonical name of the machine indicated before in the relevant A record, etc.
5. Click the Save button.

See Also Configuring the Default Records for Zone Files (DNS Templates)