How to create a web domain – magnews Help Center

Looking to improve your email deliverability and strengthen your brand identity? Creating a custom web domain in magnews is the first step to ensuring professional, secure, and recognizable communications. In this guide, you’ll learn how to properly configure a web domain, set the necessary DNS records, and optimize your infrastructure for effective email marketing and automation workflows.

Choose the web domain

The ideal web domain is:

a subdomain of your sending domain in the case of email communications;
a subdomain of the domain representing your company, brand, product, or service online, in the case of SMS communications or landing page.

Some of the most chosen subdomains are: mn, news, newsletter, dem, web, m, marketing, nl, email.

Suppose your company is called Example and your company or sending domain is example.com, your web domain could be the subdomain mn.example.com.

Create the web domain

Create the web domain in magnews

Access the web domains section by following the path Settings > Brand Protection > Web Domains

Click the "New Web Domain" button or "Create a web domain" if it's your first time accessing this section.

On the page to create a new web domain, enter the chosen web domain and click "Create Web Domain".

Now follow the instructions on creating the CNAME type DNS record, a fundamental step to connect the chosen subdomain to the platform.

The guidelines provided on this screen are not suitable for on-premises installations. If yours is an on-premises installation, please check with our help desk for the appropriate configuration.

Meanwhile, magnews saves your web domain in draft status.

Only after the creation of CNAME record, you will able to publish the web domain and use it.

Create the CNAME record in your DNS Provider

Access your DNS provider hosting your business domain or sender domain (e.g., GoDaddy, Aruba)
Go to the section where DNS records are set
Add a new DNS record with these values:
- Type: CNAME
- Name or host: mn (or another subdomain/third level you've chosen)
- Value: fe-mn1.magnews.net

If you’re not independent in this task, download the instructions from the specific button and share them with your DNS Provider support or your IT area or the person managing your domain's DNS configurations.

DNS provider

Below, we list the main DNS providers and for each, the link to their support pages on how to set DNS records:

Publish the web domain in magnews

Go back to the web domain section to publish your web domain.
Click on your web domais, saved in draft status.
Click on "Publish Web Domain" button.

Enable an SSL certificate for the web domain

From the Security tab of the web domain, you can independently generate an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority and enable Magnews for the generation of HTTPS links to ensure a secure connection for your contacts.

Follow these few steps:

Enable the Generate HTTPS links option and click Save Web Domain

From the Domain Certification window, click on Create Certificate

The SSL certificate generation process can take up to 15 minutes, so in the Summary section, you will see a temporary message indicating that the SSL certificate for your web domain is in progress.

As soon as the SSL certificate is ready, you will see a new message indicating that the connection to your web domain is secure.