How to Verify Your Standard & Premium Domains
Verifying your domains is an important step towards listing your domains with Squadhelp. The below article will go into depth on the two ways you can verify your standard listings.
Verifying Your Standard Listings
There are two ways to verify your domains as standard listings:
Point the domains to Squadhelp Name servers.
Add a TXT record in DNS settings to verify the ownership.
Either way can begin under your left navigation, click on Standard Listings/Configure Marketplace.
How to point domains to Squadhelp Name servers
1. Add "Your Website URL". This would be the URL buyers will type to visit your Marketplace.
2. Sign in to your registrar and make sure the Nameservers for your domain name are set to the default of the registrar.
3. Update your domain name DNS to remove any existing A records. Add the following two A records
54.210.75.214
34.196.175.210
Important: Please ensure that these A records are added for both the root domain as well as the www suffix. For example, if your domain name is "TopBrands.com", you need to make sure that these A records are set up for both topbrands.com as well as www.topbrands.com
Check your registrar's help section on how to add "A records". Here is an example for GoDaddy:
5. Wait anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours for DNS to propagate.
6. Go back to your browser and type in your custom domain URL. You should see your custom Marketplace.
7. Choose how the landing pages are routed. If you want buyers to land directly on your Marketplace landing page, choose "My Marketplace" under Landing Page Destination. This option helps build a sense of ownership for your domain portfolio.
Or, you can select the option to redirect buyers to Squadhelp's Marketplace. This option adds a large sense of credibility and trust behind your domains since Squadhelp is a recognized business.
How to add TXT Records
This step is only needed if you are not pointing your domain name servers to Squadhelp.
On the My Domains page in your Standard Listings, you will see an indication to verify your domains after you have added a few of your names.
Once you click on 'Verify now', you should see the Domain Verification Instructions:
Copy your Verification Code and add this as a TXT record under the DNS settings for all your domains. The same TXT record can be added for all the domains you are adding to the white label Marketplace.
Verifying Premium Domains
Squadhelp requires sellers to point their domains to Squadhelp's name servers at all times. This policy applies to all seller owned domains for Premium listings.
Here are the instructions to point your premium domains to Squadhelp Name Servers:
Edit the nameservers for your domain in your registrar’s control panel. Set the first and second nameservers to:
ns1.squadhelp.com
ns2.squadhelp.com
Leave any other nameservers blank.
Once you’ve done this, it can take 24 – 48 hours for your changes to propagate across the internet.
Squadhelp will automatically check if your domain is pointed to us at random intervals. If you prefer, you can ask Squadhelp to check right away, by visiting your Marketplace Listings Dashboard and clicking Check DNS.
Important: While the domain is listed with Squadhelp, you must continue to point your Name Servers to Squadhelp at all times. Failure to update your name servers to Squadhelp will result in the delisting of your domain, and further account restrictions.