title: DNS -> Overview

## Overview ##

DNS API allows you to manage DNS as A Service and services such as
[Zerigo DNS][1], [Rackspace Cloud DNS][2] and
[others](/supported_providers.html).

### Terminology ###

* **Zone** - represents a DNS zone or so called domain.
* **Record** - represents a DNS record. Each record belongs to a Zone and has a
record type and data field. Data depends on the record type.
* **RecordType** - represents a record type (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, etc.).

[1]: http://www.zerigo.com/managed-dns
[2]: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/