DNS provider guide
Google Cloud DNS: add the client portal records
How to publish the two DNS records for your client portal address at Google Cloud DNS. Each record below is written the way Google Cloud DNS asks for it.
Before you start
Name servers at Google Cloud DNS usually look like ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com. If yours look different, your DNS is run elsewhere: see how to find your DNS host in the full guide.
- Your registrar must use all the name servers of the managed zone. Registrar setup on the zone details page lists them.
Where Google Cloud DNS shows the name servers
Zone details, Registrar setup.
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 Google Cloud DNS, then follow this path:
Add the TXT record
Choose Add standard.
In Resource record type, choose TXT.
In DNS name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In the value field, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL and TTL unit: 300 seconds while you set things up.
Choose Create to save the record.
- Google asks for each TXT string to be enclosed in quotation marks. The value below includes them.
At Google Cloud DNS the TXT value goes in double quotation marks, as shown.
TXT record
Proves that your firm controls this address.
- Resource record type
TXT- DNS name
_atlas-portal.portalFull name: _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
- Value field
Copy this value from the Atlas screen, or paste it above to see it here. It is unique to your firm.
- TTL and TTL unit
300 seconds while you set things up.
Add the CNAME record
Choose Add standard.
In Resource record type, choose CNAME.
In DNS name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In the value field, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL and TTL unit: 300 seconds while you set things up.
Choose Create to save the record.
- In DNS name, enter the subdomain only. The console adds the zone and the final dot itself.
CNAME record
Sends visitors of this address to your client portal.
- Resource record type
CNAME- DNS name
portalFull name: portal.yourfirm.com
- Value field
portal.wrxstack.com- TTL and TTL unit
300 seconds while you set things up.
How Google Cloud DNS names the fields
| Atlas shows | TXT record | CNAME record |
|---|---|---|
| Record type | Resource record type | Resource record type |
| Record name | DNS name | DNS name |
| Record value | Value field | Value field |
| Name form | The part before your domain | |
Things to watch at Google Cloud DNS
- If two records share a name, only a CNAME record may be there. Delete any other record on your portal name.
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.comGoogle does not state a time for a new record.


Official help from Google Cloud DNS
The help articles Google Cloud DNS publishes on these steps. If the screens at Google Cloud DNS have changed, follow them.
What this guide could not confirm
The help pages of Google Cloud DNS do not state the following. Where a label is missing above, look for the field described here.
- The label of the value field in the record form is not given in the documentation. It is the field below TTL that holds the record data.
- Whether the CNAME target needs a final dot is not stated. If the console refuses the target, add a dot at the end.
Other providers
The notes about Google Cloud DNS are in English, because they quote the labels Google Cloud DNS shows on its screens. Back to the full guide