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Administrators Only

Only users in the Administrators group can create a domain.

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Domains

Creating a domain is necessary if you wish to host your website or send email from your domain within OptiPub.

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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 of a subdomain to OptiPub. Choose a brand new subdomain under a managed domain you control, and delegate or transfer subdomain DNS management to OptiPub.

OptiPub will manage all DNS records for the subdomain after delegation or transfer, except for the records described below.

Do Not include any other DNS records for the subdomain on your DNS provider. Doing so will cause conflicting delegation that will cause DNS resolvers to provide inconsistent or no DNS resolution to the subdomain.

Delegate a Subdomain to OptiPub

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Skip this section if using DNS Made Easy

If the domain uses DNS Made Easy as the DNS provider, do not follow this procedure, skip to the next section, Transfer Subdomain if DNS Made Easy is your DNS Provider .

OptiPub uses DNS Made Easy, and there is a different way to transfer domains between accounts.

To delegate a sending subdomain to OptiPub you will create NS records in the parent domain to point your subdomain to OptiPub's DNS Provider..

1. Login to your DNS provider.
2. Edit the parent managed domain.
3. Create NS records for the subdomain that point to OptiPub's DNS Provider.

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 at the end of the Name value, so that the managed domain is appended to the end.

Add these NS records to the parent domain (e.g., example.com) and configure the record Name with the subdomain, in this example 'e' is the subdomain.

NS Records

Validation is not needed for OptiPub to create the delegated subdomain.

Contact OptiPub after creating the NS records to delegate your subdomain to OptiPub.

Transfer Subdomain if DNS Made Easy is your DNS Provider

If you 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

1. Navigate to Managed DNS and click the button Add Domains.
2. Enter the chosen subdomain in Domain Names (e.g., e.example.com)
3. 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

1. Navigate to Account Transfer.
2. In the Transfer domains dropdown select only the subdomain created for delegation.
3. For To account with username: enter optipub
4. 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.