Set up a Domain to Send Email
Administrators Only
Only users in the Administrators group can create a domain.
Domains
Creating a domain is necessary if you wish to host your website or send email from your domain within OptiPub.
Verification
You will not be able to use a domain until it has been "Configured" and "Verified". Contact support if you have any questions.
Sending Email
OptiPub will manage the DNS records for the subdomain you choose to send email in order to ensure correct DNS records are kept for email delivery (DKIM/SPF/DMARC etc.).
You must not have any existing DNS records for the subdomain you choose to delegate to OptiPub. Make sure to review the records of your current DNS provider to confirm no records exist.
Delegate a Subdomain to OptiPub for Sending Email
To send email with OptiPub you must delegate DNS management to OptiPub.
Choose a brand new subdomain from a domain you own to delegate to OptiPub.
OptiPub uses DNS Made Easy as our DNS provider. If you also use DNS Made Easy, skip to the next section.
Delegate a Subdomain to OptiPub
If you do not use DNS Made Easy as your DNS provider you will delegate a sending subdomain to OptiPub you will create NS records to point your subdomain to the DNS Made Easy Nameservers.
- Login to your DNS provider.
- Edit the parent managed domain.
- Create NS records for the subdomain that point to DNS Made Easy Nameservers.
Make sure to add a period (.) at the end of the
Value
of each NS record to signify a complete FQDN record.Do not include a period in the
Name
to append the managed domain to the end.
Add these NS records to the parent domain (e.g., example.com
) and configure the record Name with the subdomain.
NS Records
Name | Value | TTL |
---|---|---|
e | ns20.digicertdns.com. | 86400 |
e | ns21.digicertdns.com. | 86400 |
e | ns22.digicertdns.com. | 86400 |
e | ns23.digicertdns.net. | 86400 |
e | ns24.digicertdns.net. | 86400 |
e | ns25.digicertdns.net. | 86400 |
Validation is not needed for OptiPub to create the delegated subdomain. DNS Made Easy restricts managed domains to a single user account globally.
Contact OptiPub after creating the NS records to delegate your subdomain to DNS Made Easy's Nameservers.
Transfer Subdomain if DNS Made Easy is your DNS Provider
If you also use DNS Made Easy as your DNS provider you will not delegate NS records.
Instead you will create a new managed domain
specifically for the subdomain inside DNS Made Easy, and then transfer the subdomain as a managed domain
to OptiPub's DNS Made Easy user account optipub
.
Follow DNS Made Easy's documentation to transfer a domain another DNSME account
Create a New Managed Domain
DNSME > DNS > Managed DNS > Add Domains
- Navigate to
Managed DNS
and click the button Add Domains. - Enter the chosen subdomain in
Domain Names
(e.g.,e.example.com
) - Click Ok
This will create a new managed domain that you can transfer to OptiPub, and you will retain control of the parent domain.
Transfer the Managed Domain to another DNS Made Easy Account
DNSME > Advanced > Account Transfer
- Navigate to
Account Transfer
. - In the
Transfer domains
dropdown select only the subdomain created for delegation. - For
To account with username:
enteroptipub
- Click the button Transfer and then confirm the action.
Contact OptiPub to notify us to accept the transfer request.
Click Tracking Domain
After delegating the sending subdomain to OptiPub, no action is needed on your end for OptiPub to create the click tracking domain.
OptiPub will create the subdomain click.e.example.com
inside the delegated subdomain e.example.com
managed by OptiPub.
If a separate domain for click tracking is preferred, follow the same process above to delegate e.example.com
to OptiPub for the separate domain.
Updated 8 days ago