How to To setup a Domain Key in Godaddy.com
May 12 2008
This info is based on eROI clients. Your Domain Key may differ, ask your provider.
The Domain Key is added as a TXT entry. Below are some examples of what these TXT entries will look like:
TXT Name
_domainkey.eroi.com
kesp._domainkey.eroi.com
TXT Value
“t=y; o=~;”
“k=rsa\; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb….”
1. Click on “Add New TXT Record”
2. For the TXT Name, enter “_domainkey” and for the value type in “o=~”.
3. Click to add another TXT record.
4. For the value field, take the entry from your email (example from above is “kesp._domainkey.eroi.com”) and copy all the text up to the “.” after “_domainkey” (kesp._domainkey) and use that for your TXT Name.
5. Your TXT Value is the long string without the “\”. Godaddy’s DNS doesn’t like the “\” so just leave it out.
Click OK and the change should take around an hour.
Published in Getting Better at Email Marketing on Monday, May 12th, 2008
Tags: Deliverability, dkim, domain keys, godaddy
August 14th, 2008 at 9:58 am
impressive articles. i tried adding my domainkey to godaddy and
a) how do i verify that it works.
b) it didn’t look like it was getting recognized from what i see.
any help would be AMAZING!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Noah,
One quick and easy way is to send to Yahoo and look for the “key” logo.
Here is the image of the key in Yahoo!:
Also, if you view the full message header, you will see this:
“domainkeys=pass (ok)”
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hi:
I tried setting this up on GoDaddy and it didn’t work. I have a couple of questions:
1) on the TXT names you list above, does the first TXT name (without selector) have to have yourdomain.com listed in it?
2) where do you get your key generated from, if you don’t already have one?