How do I resolve this DNS problem? Image below
Well first of all you’ve added a CNAME record for your www subdomain but you haven’t added any DNS record for your apex domain, meaning the apex domain won’t resolve. Technically you don’t HAVE to have a resolvable apex domain but under most circumstances it’s highly desirable. So you should add either a CNAME or A / AAAA records so that the apex domain will be resolvable and will route where you want it to go.
More seriously, I can’t tell for sure because of the redaction in the screenshot, but it appears you’ve CNAME’d the www.sawlead.com subdomain to the sawlead.com apex domain, which would normally be okay except as mentioned the apex domain isn’t resolvable. Hence anyone trying to hit the WWW subdomain isn’t going to get anywhere either.
Do you even have a website? Do you have a web hosting company? Or are you starting completely from scratch? Have you ever had a website before?
The DMARC thing is less important. It’s optional, but if you’re not going to be using your domain for e-mail, you should use the “Email Security” wizard to prevent your domain from e-mail spoofing
If you are going to use the domain for e-mail, you should follow your e-mail provider’s instructions for setting up DMARC / SPF / DKIM records
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I have a website on Squarespace, though i have been told my domain needs to be 60 days old to work, so i am waiting for one more month. Never had a website before,all this cname and aaaa jargon is new to me.
How do i do this >
" So you should add either a CNAME or A / AAAA records so that the apex domain will be resolvable and will route where you want it to go."
(I don’t know how to do it?)
The DMARC can wait.
Squarespace says you should add records like this:
You shouldn’t have to wait 60 days.
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