Page Rule, Forwarding URL: Appropriate DNS Settings?

[andy21]

I’m quite new to Cloudflare and I’m sorry for my noobish question…

I own 2 domains with almost the same name: domainname.org and domain-name.org, both are registered to Cloudflare DNS

domainname. org has all the appropriate DNS-records set and visitors of the site are correctly directed to the website’s server.

Now I’d like to set up domain-name. org to redirect users directly to domainname. org. I registered domain-name. org in my Cloudflare dashboard and i went to Page Rules and set up a Forwarding URL to push everyone looking for domain-name. org/ to domainname. org.

But until now it doesn’t work. I suppose, this must have something to do with the fact, that my DNS-records for domain-name. org are empty.

Could someone explain to me, what the appropriate DNS settings would be in my case? I don’t need no E-Mail with domain-name. org, I just want people who search for our site and enter the name with a “-” (hyphen) to reach our homepage.

I’d be grateful for any help!

Andy

[sdayman]

Try this:

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[andy21]

Perfect, thank you! The redirection is up and running

By the way: The CloudFlare DNS-console tells me:

#### A few more steps are required to complete your setup.Hide
Add an MX record for your root domain so that mail can reach @domain-name.org addresses.

Since I don’t really want to use the “hyphen-domain”, expect for the URL redirection, what settings would apply for the MX-record? Is it OK to just use a dummy record like @ 192.0.2.1 10 or is there a more appropriate way to do it?

[sdayman]

I add a null MX record when I don’t want that domain (or subdomain) to accept mail: