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Custom domains within Stampede

Patrick Clover
Updated

This article provides a step-by-step guide on adding a custom domain in Stampede. It involves four main steps: adding your domain to Stampede, verifying your email, authenticating the domain, and SPF verification to prevent emails from being marked as spam. The process includes selecting "Marketing" and "Addresses & Domains" in Stampede, verifying the email via Amazon Web Services, setting up domain authentication through DNS settings with providers like Google Domains, and configuring SPF settings to protect against spoofing. The article emphasises the importance of each step for successful domain integration.

It's a good idea to check out our other article that explains why setting this up in Stampede is important.

Adding your custom domain involves four simple steps:

  1. Adding your domain to Stampede: Start by adding your custom domain and sender email (this is what your customers will see when they receive communications from us).
  2. Email verification: Next, verify the email you’ve chosen.
  3. Domain authentication: This step involves authenticating Stampede to send emails on your behalf.
  4. SPF Verification: This helps prevent your emails from being marked as spam and protects your domain against spoofing.

 

Adding your domain to Stampede:

  1. Select "Marketing" from the left-hand side.

     

  2. In the left column under "Email", select "Addresses & Domains".

     

  3. Click on the "+" sign in the top right corner to add a new domain.

     

  4. A pop-up will appear where you can enter your email address and sender name.
  5. Once you've entered this information, you’ll see two sections: Authenticate Domain and Email Addresses. These will remain in pending status until verification is complete.

Email Verification:

  1. Log in to the email account you used for the email address in step 4.
  2. Once you're signed in, look for an email from Amazon Web Services. Click on that email and then on the verification link.
  3. That’s it! You should see the orange light change to green.

 

Domain Authentication:

  1. Log in to your domain provider. In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to set it up using Google Domains, but the steps are similar for other providers. You can view all the Authenticate Domain setups here.

  2. Go to the DNS section of your domain provider.

  3. Once the DNS section is open, click on “Manage custom records”

  4. Here, you can add custom records for your domain. Return to Stampede and copy the name from the first row. Go back to your domain provider and paste the name in the “Host name” section (highlighted in blue). Set the type to CNAME and leave the TTL (Time to Live) at its default value.

    Then, head back to the Stampede dashboard, copy the value data from the first row, and paste it into the data section of your domain provider (highlighted in red). Please repeat this for all the rows from the Stampede dashboard.

  5. After completing this, click save. It may take a moment for your domain provider to save these records. Return to the Stampede dashboard, and you should see the Authenticate Domain status change from Pending to Success.

     

SPF Verification:

  1. Log in to your domain provider.

  2. Enter the following details in your DNS settings:

    Type: TXT

    Host: @

    Value: v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ~all (If you need to include other domains in your SPF settings, you can add them by placing include: before the domain name. It should look like this: v=spf1 include:example.com include:amazonses.com ~all)

  3. Once you've entered the information, click save. Please allow some time for your domain provider to save these records.
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