DNS Helper

About This Project

DNS Helper explains DNS records in plain language, for the willing amateur setting up their first domain and the professional looking up a record they've never needed before. No screenshots: every explanation is written to make sense whatever panel you're actually looking at.

Part of a small family of sites

hostingdetails.eu answers registration (RDAP first, WHOIS as the fallback), DNS, SSL and DNSSEC questions about a domain you already have. expert.hostingdetails.eu runs deeper, RFC-compliant checks against SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the rest. DNS Helper is the third: it doesn't check anything, it explains what the records those two sites talk about actually mean, and how to add one yourself.

Where an explanation here overlaps with a live check on Expert Tools, the record's own page links there directly rather than duplicating that check.

Built the same way

Same principles as its two siblings: no accounts, no third-party analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Fonts are served from this server, not someone else's. This is a solo project, built and maintained alongside a full-time job.

What little this site does store is set out in the Privacy Policy.