Adding your e-mail domain to Binox is a crucial step in organizing and streamlining your sales and marketing campaigns. Verified domains allows you to add the verified senders for your email campaigns automatically, in this tutorial we will walk you through the process of adding your domain to Binox.
Step 1: Authenticate your Domain on Binox.
Click on your "Profile picture icon" in the upper right corner and select "My Account" on the drop-down options.
Click on "Products and Add-ons" select “Binox Sales CRM” and click on "Authenticate" Under Domain Authentication.
On the “Sender Authentication” page, type in your Domain name and click on Next.
○ Important: The domain name should not include ‘http’ or ‘https’ or ‘www’. or '/’.
Note: The domain name should always be “lower case”.
To “Authenticate your Domain” We need to install the following records to the DNS section to complete the process.
Step 2: Adding an MX Record on Go Daddy.
Note: Most DNS updates take up to 48 hours to update global.
Add MX (Mail Exchanger) records in your DNS zone file when your domain is using GoDaddy nameservers. MX records connect to your email service, like Google email or Microsoft 365. We'll automatically add MX records when your domain is using GoDaddy nameservers and email. Adding new MX records may interfere with any existing MX records for your current email service.
1. Sign in to your GoDaddy Domain Portfolio.
2. Select Domain Edit Options (3-dots) next to your ”domain” and then select Edit DNS. You may need to scroll down to see the Edit DNS option.
3. Select Add to add a new record.
4. Select MX from the Type menu options. A domain can only use one email service at a time. For example, you can use Microsoft 365 or Google email on a domain.
5. Enter the details for your MX record:
o Name The domain or subdomain for the MX record. Use @ to deliver email to your root domain or use a subdomain such as www or mail. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it into your GoDaddy “Name” field.
o Priority: The order in which the record is evaluated and used. Lower priorities will be read before higher priorities.
o Value: The mail server's address, such as smtp.secureserver.net. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Value” field.
6. Select “Add Record” to save your new MX record.
Step 3: Adding the TXT Records.
Note: Most DNS updates take up to 48 hours to update globally.
Add a TXT record to verify domain ownership, complete SSL verification, and create email sender policies, such as SPF records and DMARC policies. A TXT record (short for text record) is an informational DNS record used to associate a text string with a host or other name.
1. Sign in to your GoDaddy Domain Portfolio.
2. Select Domain Edit Options (3-dots) next to your ”domain” and then select Edit DNS. You may need to scroll down to see the Edit DNS option.
3. Select "Add" to add a new record.
4. Select MX from the Type menu options. A domain can only use one email service at a time. For example, you can use Microsoft 365 or Google email on a domain.
5. Enter the details for your MX record:
o Name The domain or subdomain for the MX record. Use @ to deliver email to your root domain or use a subdomain such as www or mail. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Name” field.
o Priority: The order in which the record is evaluated and used. Lower priorities will be read before higher priorities.
o Value: The mail server's address, such as smtp.secureserver.net. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Value” field.
o TTL: How long the server should cache information. The default setting is 1 hour.
6. Select “Add Record” to save your new MX record.
Step 3: Adding the TXT Records.
Note: Most DNS updates take up to 48 hours to update globally.
Add a TXT record to verify domain ownership, complete SSL verification, and create email sender policies, such as SPF records and DMARC policies. A TXT record (short for text record) is an informational DNS record used to associate a text string with a host or other name.
1. Sign in to your GoDaddy Domain Portfolio.
2. Select Domain Edit Options (3-dots) next to your domain and then select Edit DNS. You may need to scroll down to see the Edit DNS option.
Note: This will add the DKIM Record from Binox to your GoDaddy.
3. Select Add to add a new record.
4. Select "TXT" from the "Type" menu options.
5. Enter the details for your TXT record:
o Name The hostname for the record. Type @ to put the TXT record on your root domain, or enter a prefix such as mail. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Name” field.
o Value: The text string for the TXT record. This is usually provided by your SSL, hosting or email provider. TXT records have a maximum character limit of 1024 and only UTF-8 characters are supported. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and GoDaddy “Value” field.
o TTL: How long the server should cache information. The default setting is 1 hour.
6. Select Add Record to save your new TXT record.
Note: This will add the SPF Record from Binox to your GoDaddy.
7. Select Add to add a new record.
8. Select "TXT" from the "Type" menu options.
9. Enter the details for your TXT record:
o Name: The hostname for the record. Type @ to put the TXT record on your root domain, or enter a prefix such as mail. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Name” field.
o Value: The text string for the TXT record. This is usually provided by your SSL, hosting or email provider. TXT records have a maximum character limit of 1024 and only UTF-8 characters are supported. Click on the “Copy” Icon on Binox and paste it on your GoDaddy “Value” field.
o TTL: How long the server should cache information. The default setting is 1 hour.
10. Select Add Record to save your new TXT record.
Step 4: Authenticating your Domain on Binox.
When you are done creating all the 3 records on “GoDaddy” go back to Binox, add a check mark on “I’ve added these records” and click on “Verify”.
After your click on “Verify” you should see a “fail” status, this is a temporary status, most DNS take up to 48 hours to update, you can close this window and come back at a later time.
After 48 hours you should see an “Authenticated” and a green checkmark on your Domain, or a “Fail” if it didn’t Authenticate successfully, click on the “Domain name” to go back and retry the steps.
Backtrack the steps in case you made a mistake adding the records on your domain, add a checkmark to “I’ve added these records” and click on “Verify Again”. You will need to wait 48 hours to get your records Authenticated.
If done correctly you will see an “Authenticated” and a green checkmark on your Domain.
○ Click on the “Trash Icon” next to the domain to delete any domain, also you can add a new domain by selecting “Add New Domain”.
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