All customers with new services purchased after August 2025 will manage their domains DNS records in their client area at www.myhost.ie and once logged follow the steps below.
- Click on Domains > My Domains which will list your domain names with ourselves.
- Click into the Domain you wish to manage.
- Click on the Manage DNS option on the Manage menu, displayed on the left of the screen.
- A page containing all the DNS records created for your domain will be visible.
- Click on ADD Record to create new DNS records for your domain name.
Some common records you might want to add:
A Record
This points a hostname to a server by the server IP Address. This is the most common kind of DNS record. Examples are:
mydomainname.com (or @mydomainname.com depending on the platform) - pointing to server 81.17.252.110
www.mydomainname.com - pointing to server 81.17.252.110
sub.mydomainname.com - pointing to server 81.17.248.40
Where mydomainname.com is your own domain and the series of numbers - the IP address, is the IP address of the server you are pointing the domain to. Typically you can get this information from your hosting provider.
To set up an A record select the A record from the drop down menu when creating a new DNS record. Put the first part of the hostname excluding the domainname.com part into the first field (leave blank if setting it up for just the domainname.com and put in * for a wildcard A record). Put the IP address in to the IP Address field and then submit\finish.
MX Record
MX records control where the email for a domain goes. You typically want to set these up for domainname.com itself, pointing to something like mail.domainname.com or your mail service provider.
CNAME Records
A CNAME record is pretty much the same as an A record however instead of pointing a hostname to an IP Address it points to a hostname. For example:
www.mydomainname.com - pointing to ghs.google.com
To set up a CNAME select the CNAME option from the drop down menu when creating a new DNS record. Put the first part of the hostname excluding the domainname.com part into the first field. Put the hostname\value in to the Canonical Name field and ensure to put a . at the end of the hostname here, then submit\finish.
