DNS provider guide
Dynadot: add the client portal records
How to publish the two DNS records for your client portal address at Dynadot. Each record below is written the way Dynadot asks for it.
Before you start
Name servers at Dynadot usually look like ns1.dyna-ns.net. If yours look different, your DNS is run elsewhere: see how to find your DNS host in the full guide.
- Both portal records go in the Subdomain Record section, not the Domain Record section, because neither is on the bare domain.
- If your name servers are elsewhere, add the records where they are managed, not at Dynadot.
- If the domain uses Dynadot Email Setting, Dynadot asks you to turn that off before you change DNS here.
Where Dynadot shows the name servers
The drop-down at the top of DNS Settings shows Dynadot DNS or Name Servers.
Fill in your own values
Enter the address you added in Atlas, and paste the TXT value Atlas shows for it. Every record on this page and on the provider guides then shows your exact values. What you enter stays in this browser.
For example portal.yourfirm.com, without https:// in front of it.
Copy it from the card of your address in Atlas. It starts with atlas-portal-verification=
Your domain is read as yourfirm.com. If your DNS provider shows a different domain at the end of the name field, enter only the part of the name before that domain.
Open the DNS editor
Sign in at Dynadot, then follow this path:
Add the TXT record
Use an empty row of the form.
In Record Type, choose TXT.
In Subdomain, enter the name shown in the record below.
In IP Address / Destination, enter the value shown in the record below.
Choose Save Settings to save the record.
- Enter the TXT value without quotation marks. Dynadot asks for them to be removed.
TXT record
Proves that your firm controls this address.
- Record Type
TXT- Subdomain
_atlas-portal.portalFull name: _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
- IP Address / Destination
Copy this value from the Atlas screen, or paste it above to see it here. It is unique to your firm.
Add the CNAME record
Use an empty row of the form.
In Record Type, choose CNAME.
In Subdomain, enter the name shown in the record below.
In IP Address / Destination, enter the value shown in the record below.
Choose Save Settings to save the record.
CNAME record
Sends visitors of this address to your client portal.
- Record Type
CNAME- Subdomain
portalFull name: portal.yourfirm.com
- IP Address / Destination
portal.wrxstack.com
How Dynadot names the fields
| Atlas shows | TXT record | CNAME record |
|---|---|---|
| Record type | Record Type | Record Type |
| Record name | Subdomain | Subdomain |
| Record value | IP Address / Destination | IP Address / Destination |
| Name form | The part before your domain | |
Things to watch at Dynadot
- Selecting Dynadot DNS in the drop-down at the top switches the domain to Dynadot name servers. Do this only if you mean to.
Check that it worked
Go back to Atlas and choose Check now on the card of your address, or ask DNS yourself:
dig +short TXT _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
dig +short CNAME portal.yourfirm.com
nslookup -type=TXT _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
nslookup -type=CNAME portal.yourfirm.comDynadot does not state a time.
Official help from Dynadot
The help articles Dynadot publishes on these steps. If the screens at Dynadot have changed, follow them.
What this guide could not confirm
The help pages of Dynadot do not state the following. Where a label is missing above, look for the field described here.
- Dynadot pages name the value box IP Address / Destination in one place and IP Address or Target Host in another.
- Whether a two part name such as _atlas-portal.portal is accepted in Subdomain is not stated.
Other providers
The notes about Dynadot are in English, because they quote the labels Dynadot shows on its screens. Back to the full guide