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Every Member.buzz Space comes with a free subdomain. Default domains are composed of your site's Slug and the Member.buzz domain. For instance, if your organization is called The Penguin Club, you might choose to have the following address:

https://penguin-club.member.buzz

A custom domain allows you to have a completely unique URL, for instance:

https://www.penguin-club.org

If you want to map your own domain, you first have to purchase it from a Domain Registrar (e.g. GoDaddy or Register.com). After you own the domain, you can also map this custom domain to your Member.buzz Space by following these steps:

UI Steps
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UI Step

Setup Site

Before you can begin, you must have created a Member.buzz Space.


UI Step

Purchase Domain

You must own a custom domain, or have purchased a new one from a registrar (e.g. GoDaddy).


UI Step

Setup DNS Records

After you purchase your domain, you have to add a few DNS records into your registrar account (e.g. GoDaddy).

To get started, choose whether you want to map a domain or subdomain to your Member.buzz space.

UI Tabs


UI Tab
titleDomain

To map your domain (https://www.domain.com), create the following DNS mapping records to point to Member.buzz:

RecordHostDestinationTTL
A@52.224.165.15330
CNAMEwwwplatform.routing.member.buzz30

If your DNS provider is capable of utilizing a secondary IP address for an A Record, you can use 207.252.2.252.

Next, create the following DNS verification records to verify the ownership of your domain:

RecordHostDestinationTTL
CNAMEverify

verify.member.buzz

86400

After your custom domain has been approved and you have verified that it is functioning correctly, the DNS verification records can be removed.


UI Tab
titleSubdomain

To map your subdomain (https://subdomain.domain.com), create the following DNS mapping record to point to Member.buzz:

RecordHostDestinationTTL
CNAMEsubdomain

<Subdomain>

platform.routing.member.buzz

30

Next, create the following DNS verification record to verify the ownership of your domain:

RecordHostDestinationTTL
CNAME


Unwrappable

verify.

subdomain

<Subdomain>


verify.member.buzz30

After your custom domain has been approved and you have verified that it is functioning correctly, the DNS verification record can be removed.

We recommend a Time-to-Live (TTL) of 30 seconds for all of these records.


If you still need help, you can either work with your registrar or reach out to us.


UI Step

Setup SPF Records

A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Record is an email authentication standard that compares the email sender’s actual IP address to a list of IP addresses authorized to send mail from that domain. The IP list is published in the domain’s DNS record.

In order to avoid having all of the notifications sent from your Space end up in your Member's spam folder, you will need to add or modify your SPF record to indicate that Member.buzz is a legitimate source of mail for your domain.

If you have an SPF record set for your domain, you must add include:spf.smtp.member.buzz before the all mechanism of the record. If you do not have an SPF record for your domain you must create a TXT record with the value:

Code Block
v=spf1 a mx include:spf.smtp.member.buzz ~all

Do not create more than one SPF1 record for a given domain. If you need more than one SPF record, you will want to merge the additional SPF records into a single SPF record.

For example, if your existing record looks like this:

Code Block
v=spf1 a mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all

You would just need to add our lookup at the end of the string, before the ~all mechanism, like so:

Code Block
v=spf1 a mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.smtp.member.buzz ~all

After this record is added your notifications will be much less likely to end up in your Member's spam folder.


UI Step

Adding Domain to Member.buzz Space

Next, you must add your custom domain in your Space's Domain Setup Dashboard:

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UI Step

Approval

After a custom domain has been added to a Space, an automated process begins to setup everything on our end.  This process has three steps:

  1. Verifying
    The setup that you completed above should be automatically verified within an hour.
  2. Binding
    Your setup has been verified and the binding is being configured.
  3. Complete
    The binding is ready to use!

After your new domain has been verified, you can use it to access your Space.



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