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Fix 'dkim=fail' in Gmail When DNS Records Are Correct
SPF passes. DKIM record checks out in cPanel's Email Deliverability page. Everything looks green — but Gmail still shows dkim=fail in the message headers, or w…
WWW vs Non-WWW: Set Up the Right Canonical Redirect
Half your visitors type "yoursite.com" and the other half type "www.yoursite.com" out of habit, and both versions load your site — but as far as Google, your S…
Secondary DNS: Add a Backup Nameserver Before You Need It
If your domain has only one nameserver provider, you have a single point of failure you probably don't think about until it breaks. When that provider has an o…
Delegate a Subdomain to a Different DNS Provider With NS Records
You run everything else on SkyServer, but one subdomain needs to live somewhere else — maybe app.yourdomain.com points at a SaaS platform, or shop.yourdomain.c…
SOA Record Explained: Fix Slow DNS Sync & Propagation Issues
Most people never think about the SOA record. It doesn't route mail like an MX record or verify a domain like a TXT record, so it's easy to ignore. Then one da…
ALIAS/ANAME Records Explained: CNAME Your Apex Domain
You've got a CDN, a landing-page builder, or a SaaS product that gives you a hostname to point your domain at — something like abc123.cdn-provider.net — instea…
Why Your .IN Domain Got Suspended: INRegistry Explained
If your .in, .co.in, or .org.in domain has suddenly stopped resolving — even though you renewed on time and your SkyServer hosting is working fine — you're pro…
SRV DNS Records Explained: Setup in cPanel Zone Editor
If you've ever tried to hook up a VoIP phone system, get Microsoft Teams federation working, or point a Minecraft server to a friendlier hostname, you've proba…
Autodiscover DNS Records: Fix Email Auto-Setup Failures
A customer emailed us last week annoyed that Outlook kept popping up a settings dialog every time they added their mailbox on a new laptop. Webmail worked fine…
CAA DNS Records Explained: Stop Silent SSL Renewal Failures
A customer wrote in last week convinced their domain was cursed. AutoSSL kept failing, Let's Encrypt's own certbot on their VPS threw a cryptic urn:ietf:params…