Verify your Hostinger domain to improve your Buzzshot email deliverability
Does Hostinger manage your domain's DNS?
Buzzshot sends emails to your players for you, such as your "Thanks for playing" emails. Verifying your domain tells other email servers that Buzzshot may send email for you, so fewer of those emails end up in spam.
If Buzzshot shows "uses Hostinger for DNS" on your domain's page, follow the steps below.
Step 1. Find your records in Buzzshot
Log in to your Buzzshot Admin account. Go to Settings → Emails → Verify Sending Domains and click Setup next to your domain. You will see three records: DKIM (a TXT record), Return-Path (a CNAME record) and DMARC (a TXT record). Steps 2 and 3 cover the first two, and Step 4 covers DMARC. Click the copy button next to a value to copy it.
Step 2. Open your DNS records in Hostinger
Log in to the Hostinger dashboard. In the left sidebar, go to Domains → DNS, then select your domain. This opens the DNS records page, where you add each record.
Add the DKIM record
- Set Type to TXT.
- In Name, paste the DKIM hostname from Buzzshot, without your domain on the end. Hostinger adds your domain for you.
- In the value box, paste the DKIM text value from Buzzshot.
- Leave TTL as it is.
- Click Add Record.
Add the Return-Path record
- Set Type to CNAME.
- In Name, paste the Return-Path hostname from Buzzshot, again without your domain on the end.
- In the target box, enter
pm.mtasv.net. - Leave TTL as it is.
- Click Add Record.
If you paste the full hostname into Name, Hostinger adds your domain a second time and the record will not verify. For example, enter buzzbounces, not buzzbounces.yourdomain.com.
Step 3. Verify in Buzzshot
Go back to your domain's page in Buzzshot and click Re-Verify. Once DKIM and Return-Path show a green tick, go on to Step 4. Status on the Verify Sending Domains page shows Missing DMARC until you have.
Step 4. Add a DMARC record
DMARC tells mail providers that email from your domain is genuine. Your domain needs a DMARC record: Microsoft requires one, so without it emails to Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live and MSN addresses may not be delivered. Set up DMARC explains why. The DMARC row on your domain's page in Buzzshot shows what we found, with a button to copy the value you need.
First, check whether it is already there
A domain can have only one DMARC record, and a second one could make both stop working. Before you add anything, open your DNS records as you did in Step 2 and look through the list for a TXT record named _dmarc.
- You find one: do not add another. Click Re-Verify in Buzzshot. If the DMARC row shows Verified, you are finished. If it shows Invalid, follow the warning on the page, or see Fix a record that does not work.
- You do not find one: add it as shown below.
Add the DMARC record
- Set Type to TXT.
- In Name, enter
_dmarc. - In the value box, enter
v=DMARC1; p=none; - Leave TTL as it is.
- Click Add Record.
Then go to your domain's page in Buzzshot and click Re-Verify. The DMARC row now shows a green tick. On the Verify Sending Domains page, Status shows Verified and DMARC policy shows None with a green tick. None is the policy you just set, so you are done.
Troubleshooting
- Hostinger changes can take up to 24 hours to show up.
- If a record stays unverified, open it in Hostinger and check that Name does not include your domain.
- Hostinger saves records even when your domain's nameservers point somewhere else, but they only take effect while your nameservers are Hostinger's. If your domain uses another DNS provider, add the records there instead.
- If the DMARC row still shows Missing after you click Re-Verify, check that the record's type is TXT and its name is
_dmarc, then try again later.- If it shows Invalid, the warning below it says what is wrong with the record.
- If you still can't get things to verify, book a call with the Buzzshot team and we'll go through it with you.
