Guides
Email on your domain, wherever you bought it
One page per registrar and DNS host: where its DNS records go, what its form calls each field, and what it does on a new domain that gets in the way. Find yours.
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Registrars
PorkbunDomain Management → DNS Records. Its email forwarding adds MX records you must remove.
NamecheapAdvanced DNS. The MX record lives under Mail Settings, set to Custom MX.
GoDaddyDNS → Records. The MX records its own email products added outlive them.
Squarespace DomainsWhere Google Domains went. DNS settings → Custom records; email forwarding must be off first.- HHoverThe domain's DNS tab. Hover adds an MX record of its own to a new domain; delete it.
SpaceshipAdvanced DNS → Custom records. Spacemail, if connected, holds the MX records.
HostingerDNS / Nameservers. A new domain carries Hostinger's own MX records; delete them.
DNS and hosting
CloudflareDNS → Records. The three CNAME records must be DNS only — the orange cloud off.
VercelDomains → the domain's DNS records. Name is left blank for the record that receives mail.
NetlifyNetlify DNS, if the domain is delegated to it. Records cannot be edited, only replaced.
Amazon Route 53The hosted zone. Record name is left empty for the domain itself; MX priority goes in front of the value; TXT values go in quotes.
DigitalOceanNetworking → Domains. One tab per record type; the value field is named for the type.
Not sure where your domain's DNS is? Your registrar's domain page shows the nameservers; the name in them is the host to pick. A host not listed works too — the records are the same everywhere, and the whole setup shows them.