On: Ask HN: what's a good resource or book to learn domain management

Out of curiosity, who is your registrar?

I would recommend checking out Slicehost's articles and ebook on DNS topics: http://articles.slicehost.com/tags/dns

They have helped me quite a bit. From my experience, I would say the following are the most useful concepts to grasp:

* Knowing the difference between an A record and a CNAME record

* Understanding MX records (especially with the prevalence of Google Apps for email)

* Understanding SPF records (helps if you have a web app or form that sends mail)

that's a big help callmeed, just the sort of thing i was looking for. thank-you very much. not being sure what search terms i should use, i was coming up with a lot results for "domaining" frustratingly. the registrar i am using is joker.com.

No problem. Don't forget, some DNS records are managed with your host, not your registrar.

For example, most of my domains are registered through Hostway or GoDaddy, but I do most DNS management through Slicehost or Rackspace.