There are two ways to purchase a domain name for your website:

1. Purchase your domain name directly from your Kademi account
2. Purchase your domain name through a 3rd party like GoDaddy.com or Namecheap.com

If you purchase your domain name externally, you will need to point your nameservers to your Kademi account.

Purchasing a domain name

This video will quickly step you through purchasing a domain name using the provider Namecheap.com.

If you have already purchased a domain name, skip to pointing your nameservers.

Pointing your nameservers

Once you have purchased your domain name, the next step is to tell your domain name where to find your website, so when someone types your domain name in the URL of their web browser, the web browser is able to find your website which sits on a server somewhere in the world and display it.

In the case of Kademi, we use the hosting provider Amazon Web Services, one of the most recognized and trusted hosting companies in the world.

Amazon have a number of Nameservers that converts a domain name, such as “www.example.com,” to a machine-readable IP address, such as “22.231.113.64.”

In this video we will show you how to connect your domain name to Amazons Nameservers.

Setting up SSL

SSL stands for standard security technology which establishes an encrypted link between a web server (where you website resides) and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remains private and integral.

If you need to upload an existing certificate, or want to learn more about managing SSL certificates, please see the tutorial here.

The following video takes you through the simple steps to setup SSL in Kademi.

Configuring your email

In this final step we will show you how to give Kademi permission to send emails from your domain name.

If you do not complete the following steps, when you send an email from your Kademi account, it is highly likely that the recipients email server will bounce your email.

There are two types of records that we cover:

SPF record

Sender Policy Framework is an email authentication method designed to detect forging sender addresses during the delivery of the email. SPF alone, though, is limited only to detect a forged sender claimed in the envelope of the email which is used when the mail gets bounced.

DKIM record

(DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a method to validate the authenticity of email messages. When each email is sent, it is signed using a private key and then validated on the receiving mail server (or ISP) using a public key that is in DNS.