---
title: "A record"
canonical_url: "https://www.zone.lv/help/kb/a-record/"
post_type: "ht_kb"
published: "2024-05-10T12:01:53+00:00"
modified: "2025-11-19T10:49:06+00:00"
language: "en"
author: "silver"
taxonomies:
  ht_kb_category:
    - name: "Nameserver"
      url: "https://www.zone.lv/help/kb-categories/nameserver/"
    - name: "Technical (Nameservers, DNS-records, etc)"
      url: "https://www.zone.lv/help/kb-categories/domain-technical-info/"
  ht_kb_tag:
    - name: "A-record"
      url: "https://www.zone.lv/help/kb-tags/a-record/"
    - name: "DNS"
      url: "https://www.zone.lv/help/kb-tags/dns-en/"
---

# A record

A domain A record is essentially the location of your website’s hosting server on the Internet.

The A record refers to the IP address of the web server that hosts the page.
You can find your Zone server IP address [here](https://my.zone.lv/hosting/webhost/server-info).

When you visit a website from the Internet, the domain name communicates with the IP address (in technical language, name extension) in the background. This connection locates the correct server, a request is sent to the server, and as a result your website is displayed to the visitor.

If necessary, you can change the A record of a domain that uses name servers in the Zone via domain management in the “DNS records” section.

Other services that operate on your domain are also identified by A records, such as your mail server or FTP server.

 If the third party guide says to add a record with an @ name/host, omit the @ sign and just add the IP address into Destination text box.

The @ symbol is the root or apex symbol.
The meaning of the @ symbol is specified in [RFC 1035](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035#page-35):
@ A free standing @ is used to denote the current origin.
When changing DNS records for a second-level domain such as example.com, example.com is zone apex, so @ stands for example.com.
When DNS records for the subdomain foobar.example.com are changed, the @ sign equals to foobar.example.com.

When changing a DNS record in the Zone admin panel and the instructions say to enter the @ sign, then the Host text box has to be left blank, because the host of the root record already exists and is prefilled in the form.