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One-time DNS Configuration for Network Solutions
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Get into Network Solutions to edit your DNS

  1. Go to Network Solutions and log into your account.

  2. Click on Domains in the side panel.

    domains

  3. Click on the domain name that you want to set up.

  4. Expand the Advanced Tools section.

    advanced tools

  5. Click Manage next to Advanced DNS Records.

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DMARC

  1. Click on the +Add Record button in the top right corner.

    add record
  2. Complete the form with the following then click on ADD.

Type: NS

Subdomain: _dmarc

Value: ns.vali.email

TTL: 15 minutes (or no longer than 1 hour)

ns record

Best Practice: Delete the “_dmarc” TXT record from your DNS zones after you’ve added the NS record (or CNAME record) if one exists.

DKIM

Just as you've created an NS record for the _dmarc subdomain, now you will need to create a similar one for the _domainkey subdomain.

  1. Click on the +Add Record button in the top right corner.

  2. Complete the form with the following then click on ADD.

Type: NS

Subdomain: _domainkey

Value: ns.vali.email

TTL: 15 minutes (or no longer than 1 hour)

SPF

Valimail uses a part of the SPF standard called Macros. These are supported by all email receivers. Macros, along with Valimail’s patented technology, allow Valimail to provide SPF services and directly address the 10 domain lookup limit in the SPF standard.

To delegate SPF to Valimail for email authentication, you'll need to add a TXT record that includes Valimail's SPF macro, or edit your existing SPF record and replace its syntax with the one shown below.

  1. If this is the first time publishing an SPF record for your domain, click the +Add Record button and move to the second step. If you have an existing SPF record, scroll down to the section for TXT records, and look for the record whose value starts with v=spf1. Click on the 3 dots on the far right, and select Edit.

  2. Complete the form with the following then click on EDIT.

Type: TXT

Refers to: @

TXT Value: v=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~all

TTL: 15 minutes (or no longer than 1 hour)

txt record

Please note that because of existing DNS TTLs, it may take some time for Valimail to detect that you've configured the DNS record correctly.

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