DMARC records
For those of you that use GoDaddy as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for adding a DMARC record . If your domain has been added to GoDaddy through one of their partners you’ll manage your DNS records through that hosting partner. Create your domain’s DMARC record. If you have already generated a DMARC record, you can verify it with our free diagnostic tool . If you need to generate a DMARC record, you can use our free DMARC Record Wizard When you have created and verified your DMARC record, log in to your GoDaddy account. Select your domain to access the Domain Settings page. Select DNS to view your DNS records. Select Add New Record Select TXT from the Type menu. Enter the details for your TXT record: Make sure the record Type is TXT. Name/Host is set to _dmarc. Set Value to the DMARC record generated in
A DMARC record will need to be created and published in your domain’s DNS hosting provider. Some popular hosting providers are GoDaddy, Namecheap, DNS Made Easy and Cloudflare. We have several guides listed below for many of the top hosting providers to help you with each step of publishing your record. If you do not see your hosting provider listed below, you’ll want to get the step-by-step instructions directly from your provider’s website and follow their help documentation if you get stuck. Domain Name System (DNS) is an important service for all traffic that is sent or received over the internet (email, web traffic, etc.). DNS helps provide all of our connected devices with routing directions and instructions on how to perform a specific task, such as sending an email or visiting your favorite news site. Your DMARC record will inform others how to handle email that claims to come
A domain’s DMARC record can tell the world to send DMARC reports to a different domain. For example, the domain example.org might have a DMARC record of: v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc_reports@sample.net This DMARC record tells people to send reports regarding example.org to the email address of dmarc_reports@sample.net. Before reports are sent, sample.net must tell the world that it is OK to send example.org’s reports to sample.net. Otherwise, reports will not be sent to sample.net. Allowing “external” domains to accept DMARC reports is called “External Domain Verification.” For those who like too much information, the DMARC RFC describes in detail how report generators determine if sample.net is allowed to receive reports related to example.org. External Domain Verification is made possible when sample.net publishes a special TXT record at a specific location in the DNS. If example.org tells the world to send DMARC reports to the sample.net domain, people who are sending reports will
For those of you that use Network Solutions as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for publishing and adding a DMARC record. The post How to Publish a DMARC Record with Network Solutions appeared first on dmarcian.
