Every plan can create the seven types that run a website and its mail. The larger plans add the rest.
| Type | What it is for | Free | Starter | Growth | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | A name to an IPv4 address. The record that puts a website somewhere. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AAAA | The same, for IPv6. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CNAME | A name to another name. Not allowed at the zone apex. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MX | Where mail for the domain goes. Lower priority wins. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TXT | Arbitrary text — in practice SPF, DKIM, DMARC and domain verification. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NS | Delegation of a subdomain to different nameservers. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SRV | A service, its port and its host. Used by SIP, XMPP and some Microsoft services. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ALIAS | Apex flattening — behaves like a CNAME but is allowed at the zone apex. | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CAA | Which certificate authorities may issue for the domain. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| PTR | Reverse DNS. Only useful where you control the reverse zone. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| DNAME | Redirects an entire subtree of names, where CNAME redirects one. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSHFP | SSH host key fingerprints, so a client can verify the host from DNS. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| NAPTR | Rewrites a name into a URI or another name. Mostly telephony. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| URI | Maps a service name straight to a URI. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTPS | Connection parameters for HTTPS — HTTP/3, IP hints, apex aliasing. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SVCB | The general form of HTTPS, for services that are not the web. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| RP | A responsible person for the name. Informational. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| DS | Delegation signer — links a signed child zone to its parent. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| TLSA | Certificate pinning through DNS. Only meaningful with DNSSEC signed. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMIMEA | The same idea as TLSA, for S/MIME mail certificates. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| HINFO | Host hardware and operating system. Informational, rarely used. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ means the type is available on that plan. — means it is not.
Reading the chart
There are three steps, not five. Free and Starter are identical here, and so are Business and Enterprise — the difference between those pairs is zones, records and history, not which record types you can create.
- Every plan — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS and SRV. Seven types, and enough for a website, its subdomains and its email.
- Growth adds ALIAS, which behaves like a CNAME but is allowed at the zone apex, where CNAME is not. If you need
example.comitself to point at a CDN hostname, this is the record that does it. - Business and Enterprise add the remaining thirteen — CAA, PTR, DNAME, SSHFP, NAPTR, URI, HTTPS, SVCB, RP, DS, TLSA, SMIMEA and HINFO. Twenty-one in total.
If a type is missing from the menu
It is not available on your plan rather than broken. The record type menu shows only what your plan allows, so a type you cannot create does not appear at all.
Changing plan makes the extra types available immediately — an upgrade applies the moment its payment succeeds. See Changing plan for how that is timed and charged.
What each type is for
Which record types you can create covers the common ones in more detail, including which are worth adding even when nothing requires them — CAA in particular closes off an entire class of certificate mis-issuance for the cost of one record.
Last reviewed 2026-09-11.
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