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Change DNS records at Vercel

Frontend hosting platform that also sells domains and runs DNS.

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Where the DNS settings live

  1. Open the Vercel dashboard and go to Domains (team-level).
  2. Click the domain, then the DNS Records tab.

Adding a record

  1. Fill in the Name (blank for the root), Type and Value in the form.
  2. Click Add.

Editing or deleting a record

  1. Use the three-dot menu on the record row to edit or delete it.

Changing the nameservers

  1. To use Vercel DNS, set ns1.vercel-dns.com and ns2.vercel-dns.com at your registrar.
  2. To keep DNS elsewhere, add an A record for the root pointing at 76.76.21.21 and a CNAME for www to cname.vercel-dns.com.

Gotchas at Vercel

  • Vercel shows the exact records it wants under the project's Domains tab — copy those rather than guessing.
  • Verification TXT records must stay in place for as long as the domain is attached.

After you save

DNS changes aren't instant. Resolvers keep the old answer until the previous record's TTL expires, so a record with a 4-hour TTL can take 4 hours to change everywhere. Use the Route Planner's live check to see what the world sees, and the troubleshooting page if it still looks wrong after the TTL has passed.

Nearby exits

Akamai / Linode

Free DNS Manager included with a Linode account.

Amazon Route 53

AWS DNS service. Also a registrar. Charged per hosted zone and per query.

Azure DNS

Microsoft's managed DNS, configured through the Azure portal.

Cloudflare

Free, fast DNS with an optional proxy/CDN layer. Very common as a DNS host even when the domain is registered elsewhere.

DigitalOcean

Free DNS hosting for domains you point at DigitalOcean. Not a registrar.

Google Cloud DNS

Google Cloud's authoritative DNS. Note: consumer Google Domains was sold to Squarespace.