DNS provider guide
Squarespace Domains: add the client portal records
How to publish the two DNS records for your client portal address at Squarespace Domains. Each record below is written the way Squarespace Domains asks for it.
Before you start
Formerly Google Domains.
Name servers at Squarespace Domains 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.
- You can edit DNS here only if the domain is registered through Squarespace or connected through Nameserver Connect. With custom name servers, records saved here do not apply.
- Domains that moved from Google Domains are managed here now.
- Squarespace asks for your password or a second sign-in step before it adds a record.
Where Squarespace Domains shows the name servers
Domains dashboard, your domain, DNS, Domain Nameservers.
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 Squarespace Domains, then follow this path:
Add the TXT record
Choose Add record.
In Type, choose TXT.
In Name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In Text, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL: Keep the default of 4 hours, which Squarespace enters in seconds.
Choose Save to save the record.
- Squarespace adds your domain automatically, so enter only the part before it.
TXT record
Proves that your firm controls this address.
- Type
TXT- Name
_atlas-portal.portalFull name: _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
- Text
Copy this value from the Atlas screen, or paste it above to see it here. It is unique to your firm.
- TTL
Keep the default of 4 hours, which Squarespace enters in seconds.
Add the CNAME record
Choose Add record.
In Type, choose CNAME.
In Name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In Data, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL: Keep the default of 4 hours, which Squarespace enters in seconds.
Choose Save to save the record.
- The Data field cannot contain slashes or colons. Enter the target without https:// in front of it.
CNAME record
Sends visitors of this address to your client portal.
- Type
CNAME- Name
portalFull name: portal.yourfirm.com
- Data
portal.wrxstack.com- TTL
Keep the default of 4 hours, which Squarespace enters in seconds.
How Squarespace Domains names the fields
| Atlas shows | TXT record | CNAME record |
|---|---|---|
| Record type | Type | Type |
| Record name | Name | Name |
| Record value | Text | Data |
| Name form | The part before your domain | |
Things to watch at Squarespace Domains
- A CNAME record cannot use @ as its name. That is one reason the portal needs a subdomain.
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.comSquarespace says a change to your records can take 24 to 48 hours.
Official help from Squarespace Domains
The help articles Squarespace Domains publishes on these steps. If the screens at Squarespace Domains have changed, follow them.
What this guide could not confirm
The help pages of Squarespace Domains do not state the following. Where a label is missing above, look for the field described here.
- A name with an underscore and two parts, such as _atlas-portal.portal, is not shown in the examples. Names with one underscore part such as _dmarc are.
Other providers
The notes about Squarespace Domains are in English, because they quote the labels Squarespace Domains shows on its screens. Back to the full guide