DNS is the phone book that turns your domain name into the address of the server that holds your site.
Browsers do not understand names like yourbusiness.com. They need a numeric address. DNS is the system that looks up the name and returns the number.
Your DNS records live with whoever manages your nameservers, usually your registrar or your host. Each record does one job. One points the website. Another points email. Others prove your email is real.
Going live on Think Bright Sites means changing one or two website records. We never touch your email records unless you ask. We check them before and after so nothing breaks.
An A record points your domain name to the numeric address of a server.
A CNAME record says one name is an alias for another name.
Nameservers are the servers that answer DNS questions for your domain.
Propagation is the wait while DNS servers around the world pick up a record change.
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