"Well, here I am in the global settings area, which we can access via the main menu. Scroll all the way down, showing all the work that we've done to go to the global settings and you will be greeted straight away with some instructions on how to go live. There's three things that we need to set up to go live. There's your A record, which is step one. Step two is your CNAME, and step three is your TXT, which you'll do all of these in your domain name registrar where you bought your domain name. I'll just show you what else we've got on this screen. We've got some key site details information, which I'm going to go through with you shortly. But then we've got our integrations. Now, MOBLE's got lots of integrations with different platforms such as your Google Analytics and many other platforms.

Well, this is where you go to set up most of those integrations as well. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel because as we release new integrations, I'm going to be posting those on YouTube. So that'll be the first place you get notified for those. Okay, so what we'll do here is go over to your Google and then we're going to go over to Hover and then we're going to go over to GoDaddy just to set up these domain names. Well, the key thing is when you are ready to go live, you want to put your primary domain name in here. So if you've just bought a domain name called blio.com.au, you want to put blio.com.au in your primary domain there. Your customer notification, you should know this by now, but that's the default email for all of your forms. Obviously in your form, you can go and set this up uniquely, but the customer is the email that your customer will see when they've submitted a form and they get a response back from that form. This is what they see.

Now the admin notification is who gets that email in your team, but obviously, you can set this for each form and you can set for each form many different email addresses just by putting a comma and no space and putting out the email address. Go and watch the forms episode back in day two for a bit more information on that. Okay, now you can see here, this is the information. So we're going to set up our domain name, first of all, on Google and once we've done that, then we'll request an SSL certificate. All MOBLE websites have a free SSL certificate. Once you've gone live with your domain name, you just need to come in here, punch this button, and then our team will be notified to go and set you up with your free SSL certificate. What's the SSL certificate? Well, you'll know this mostly as that security certificate.

It used to be, didn't it, HTTP, but these days, we use HTTPS:// and then your domain name. So that means your site will be secure and you won't get a not secure flag on search engines like Google Chrome. Essential stuff. Don't forget to press the SSL certificate button to get your free SSL certificate."

"First of all, we're going to set up our A record on Google. So I'm going to copy this A record. This is the place where your website lives on MOBLE. So your website lives on MOBLE servers and this is the IP address of where it lives. So we copy this IP address and now we go over to Google. Here's our domain name. I'm going to click on our domain name and I want to go over to the DNS, domain name server. This is where we serve your domain name. And you can see here straight away, it says, "What's your host name?" Your host name is going to be Sunset Talk. We can leave this blank, or if you're unsure, you can type an @ symbol.

That's always going to be the case across these registrars. By default, you can leave it blank for your A record. So I'll just show this now. I'm going to select the type, A record. Notice we're going to set up a CNAME and a TXT as step two and step three, but for now, I'm just going to set up this. Now you can make this a bit shorter than one hour. This is the number of seconds, but you can make that 10 minutes if you're in a bit of a rush. Then you now need to paste in the IP address. And that's it for step one. So now we can go on to step two and create a new record. So what we'll do here is create a new record, and this time, we're going to create a CNAME, aren't we? So let's just jump back and remind ourselves. In here, we're going to create a CNAME for the subdomain www and set it to x.moble. Well, what's going on here?

Well, for your A record, this is without the W. So this is when someone goes to the address bar, and in my case, types in without the Ws, blio.com.au. Now what if they do want to type in www.blio.com.au? Well, in this case, we're setting up a CNAME for that. I now need to go and set that CNAME. It's going to be set to the MOBLE servers x.moble.com. So I'm going to copy x.moble.com and I'm going to make our host www. Sounds complicated, but it's really straightforward. So let's go and do this now. We're going to set up a CNAME and we're going to call it www. Notice, we don't need the dot. We can make this a bit quicker, 600, and then we'll type in x.moble.com. Great. That's step two done.

Now we're going to create a new record for step three, which is going to be a TXT. So here we go. What's going to go on here? Well, let's go back to the instructions and have a look. Create a TXT record. Must include spf.moble.com and your sender ID. What is going on here? Well, a TXT is to whitelist your emails when someone completes a form. So if someone completes a form on your website, hits the submit button, and two things happen generally. You get an email and the customer gets an email. Well, we don't want those to go into spam list, spam filters, so we whitelist that email, and that's what is happening here on the TXT. All you're going to do is copy this, including the quote marks. That's often a commonly asked question. When people read the text help, they think that the quote marks is not required. We're just saying spf.moble, but no, you include the quote marks.

Now that's just example one when it's a new TXT record, a TXT record doesn't exist. But sometimes you'll go to your domain name. You might be an existing company. You maybe have emails already set up and you'll already have a TXT file, your TXT record set. Well, it'll say something like, let's imagine, outlook.com. But in this case, we're not going to create a new record. We're just going to include this bit. So see how I'm copying the spaces there? I'm going to make sure it start... There's a space between outlook, and then we're going to include:spf.moble.com, and then a space at the end. So that's all you're doing. It's no more complicated than that. You can't really break too much if you're following these instructions.

It's a new record, so in this case, I'm going to copy with the quote marks in here, look, and to the end. I'm just going to copy all of this like so, okay, and just press copy and then go over to our TXT. I can leave this blank, can't I? Or if I'm unsure, on different registrars, I could type @, but in this case, I'm just going to paste [inaudible 00:10:59] in there. We are looking pretty good. So in this case, I can now press Save. We've got an A record, CNAME, and TXT. Press Save. There we've got our domain. So all I need to do now is go back, request the SSL certificate from MOBLE, but make sure you've got that primary domain. A lot of people just leave in the site name in here. You've set it all up correctly. You can't understand why your website's not live. It's pretty much because you haven't put your primary domain name in. When you're done, press Save and that is it."

"Hover's pretty nice, Tucows. I remember Tucows when I first started in this industry back in the turn of the century. They've been going longer than Google, believe it or not, but they've rebranded, I don't know when that was, maybe 2014, 2015 to add a whole bunch of new services. Hover was then the rebranded, if that's the right word, domain name company. But you can see here, I've got sunsettalks.org, DNS. It's exactly the same situation. I'm just going to add a record, in which case, A record and put in the IP address. It's the same again. I can leave this blank, put in the IP address. Then I go into my CNAME, again, www.x.moble.com, and then add that record. Then finally, I'll go and do a TXT. Again, leave it blank. Put in our quote marks and then press Add Record. And that's done as well.

It's as easy as that, making sure that we've got our primary set up to be the same. In this case, it wouldn't be blio.com.au, would it? No, it would not. It would be sunsettalks.org. Cool. Then request the SSL certificate and then press Save."

"Go to GoDaddy. Then what I want to do is just scroll down to find the DNS. You can see here, it says, "Manage DNS." So click Manage DNS and then we'll go into a familiar-looking situation here. So we've got DNS records, and then let's click Add. Okay, let's go and work out what to do here. Well, what are we doing? We're doing an A record and then we'll copy our A record and we'll just go through the same format and again. It says @ or ww in this time, so we'll type in @ because it's our primary. So key difference, that's what you're looking out for on these registrars. Sometimes it's going to leave it blank or sometimes it's asking for that specifically.

If it's an A record, we're going to do the @ symbol. So we'll punch in our IP address here and then we'll just set it to half an hour and we'll add the record. Then we'll do the same gain. Let's go and have a look at the host name in this case. So I'm just going to copy x.moble.com. We're going to set up the ww and then let's go and add this new record in here now. We're going to add a CNAME and we're going to make this www. We're going to add in x.moble.com and again, we'll use half an hour and we'll add. Okay, great. Let's just check that it's in our list where you can see here's our CNAME and here's our A record. Now often, you'll see that there are duplicates here. So there's another A record here, which just was in the crazy domains. There's another C record here. I would just leave those all together and just add the A records that we are adding and the CNAME. If you're ever unsure, you can contact their help.

Domain name registrars are all quite different. They've all had many mergers and acquisitions, so there's a lot of things going on often when you see certain name servers and whatever. This one here says, look, you can't delete it. They need it for something. So if ever in doubt, just leave it. If it is causing you some issues, then you can just contact their support and they will help you with that. Sometimes when you buy a domain name, you can't even see the DNS, so you have to contact their support and get them to put the DNS in there for you. I've seen that a lot with certain registrars. So keep that in mind. But all we are doing is keeping it simple. We're adding only an A record and we're adding only a CNAME record. We're not deleting anything. So finally, we just need to add the TXT, so let's go and do that. Well, we don't need a new CNAME record, so I'm going to close this one down.

We do want to add a TXT. Let's go down, select to our TXT. If we are unsure, we just go back, grab this with the quote marks, copy, back over, and what we're going to do now is it says here @ or email. Well, I'm just going to type in @ in this case, going to put in our record here and then half an hour and then what I'm going to do is press Save. So simple as that. So we've covered those nuances."

"So that should make sense now to you. When you are ready now, go and set up your domain name. If you're an older company and you've had many websites before, you might just check with your IT department when you're ready, because they'll have a few things going on, no doubt, with their history of what they've been using your domain name for. The Golden Rule is don't ever change your MX record. Your MX records are for your email. If you change your MX records, your emails are going to go down. If you change your A records, it's just going to flip from one website to another, right?

MX records, don't change it at all. That's top advice there because that's what I do see some people go and change. You might be looking at old instructions and this, that, and the other from previous providers or anything like that. Just don't touch your MX records. We're only doing the A record, the CNAME for www and the TXT, so white label those emails coming off the forms."