Subdomain set-up for first-party data collection

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DNS records set-up on GreenGeeks DNS Manager

NS Records

Step 1: Go to GreenGeeks & Login to your account. Click the “My Domains” link in the navigation menu.

click the "My Domains" link

Step 2: Click the “Manage” button for the domain you are working with.

click the "Manage" button

Step 3: Click the “Domain Nameservers” tab.

click the “Domain Nameservers” tab

Step 4: You can select “GreenGeeks Nameservers” or “GreenGeekks Whitelabel” or “Custom” from the drop-down, and the fields will be populated for you.

select “GreenGeeks Nameservers” from the drop-down

select “GreenGeeks Whitelabel” from the drop-down

select “Custom Nameservers” from the drop-down

Step 5: Enter the NS record based on the information provided in the Datahash set-up window. Click the “Save Changes” button to save the name server settings.

click the "Save Changes" button

Step 6: Repeat for all 4 NS records provided by datahash.

CNAME Records

Step 1: To access the DNS Zone Editor, log in to your GreenGeeks Dashboard and go to cPanel by clicking the “cPanel Login” button in the “Quick Server Login” section.

cPanel Quick Server Login button

Step 2: In cPanel, locate the “DOMAINS” section and click the “Zone Editor” link or icon.

cPanel select section DOMAINS Zone Editor

Step 3: Choose CNAME record type & copy the CNAME record value shared by datahash and paste the same in the domain manager. Submit the details.

cPanel DNS zone editor step 1

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