Setting Up AdSense For Domains With Dynadot – Google AdSense Parking Help

Posted on | December 18, 2008 | 14 Comments

Well, lucky me. My AdSense for Domains was activated today, and since I had some free time… I decided to add a domain that just wasn’t monetizing as well as I would have expected when I first bought it. The domain itself is a targetted niche, and gets decent uniques/day. Not making much at any of the other parking providers, I figured this would be the start of my test with AdSense for Domains. The only problem? There was no darned guide for setting up your domains that are at Dynadot with AdSense For Domins. Apparently, Google didn’t feel they were imporant enough to write a guide on their AdSense for Domains set-up guide for the domain registrar Dynadot.com.  So what did I do? Make one for you! I’m going to be following the same “technique” Google has done in their other guides for registrars such as Enom, Moniker, and GoDaddy.

Steps to setup the A Record and CNAME Record on Dynadot for AdSense For Domains:

1. Sign in to your Dynadot.com account  at www.dynadot.com.

2. Click on “Manage Domains” after successfully logging in to your Dynadot control panel.

3. Either use the “Search” box or use a normal technique to locate the domain you wish to set-up for AdSense for Domains (if you used the search box, make sure you click on either the “All” or specific folder with the domain located inside it).

4. Once the domain has been located, make sure you click on the “Name server” link in order to modify the name servers for that particular domain.

5. Scroll down the page till you get to “Advanced Dynadot DNS“.

6. For “Domain Record (required)” select for Record Type: A. For IP Address or Target Host: type in 216.239.32.21. This is one of the four IPs Google has provided for their A Record settings.

7. For “Subdomain Records (optional)” type www for Subdomain. Select “CNAME” for Record Type. Afterwards, type in pub-xxxxxxxxx.afd.ghs.google.com. (where pub-xxxxxxxxx is your unique ID listed on the AdSense setup page) for IP Address or Target Host.

8. Scroll down just a bit and click “Use Dynadot DNS” in order to save your settings and make sure Dynadot uses these specific settings for this particular domain.

You’re done! You might have to wait up to 48 hours for the DNS record settings to propogate properly.

Here is a print screen of what my settings look like:

Dynadot Advanced DNS Setting for AdSense For Domains

Dynadot Advanced DNS Setting for AdSense For Domains

I know in Google’s guide they have FOUR different A Record IPs that you need, but I only used one and my domain is working (and registering uniques) properly. If I run into any problems whatsoever, I will have an update on Fka200.com regarding the issue and hopefully have a solution. For now (the last 6 hours) things seem to be working just fine. If anyone needs any help regarding their AdSense for Domains and Dynadot DNS settings, feel free to comment and I will hopefully answer back quick enough! I will also probably write something up in a week or two with my own experiences with AdSense for Domains… but I am limiting my testing to only one domain at the moment.

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14 Responses to “Setting Up AdSense For Domains With Dynadot – Google AdSense Parking Help”

  1. MsDomainer
    December 18th, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

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    I have one question (not meant to be snarky): What is the difference between setting up a blog on blogger, writing or downloading some content and images, and simply turning on adsense?

    And then setting up a custom domain for the blog?

  2. Sammy Ashouri
    December 18th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

    There are many advantages to owning your own domain. The first that I always tell to people whenever they ask why they should bother buying a domain if they can get a free blogger blog is RESALE! If you get the blog big enough and end up having a large amount of loyal readers along with many new readers daily, your “name” has value all of a sudden. If you own this name in the form of a domain, you can easily control what happens with the name, as opposed to having it locked into a subdomain. The way I see it is that for a very minor investment ($7 at most registrars) you end up having the control you want AND if anything happens in the future, you can always resell that name. I actually have a very long pending blog post that should go live December 19, 2008 @ 12:30 PM Pacific regarding blogging… I mentioned the recent sale of BankAHolic.com for $15million. Had that name been bankaholic.blogspot.com, I guarantee it would NOT have reached that high. The blog was started two years ago, and the writer stayed consistent and obviously the benefits paid off in the end of maintaining the blog and owning your name. Plus, for promotional reasons… IMO, “BankAHolic.com” sounds a trillion times better than “BankAHolic.blogspot.com”.

    Hope I answered your question! If I didn’t please rephrase :) .

    If you DO setup a blogger and fill it with content, I think you can end up using your own custom domain with the content you already had under the existing subdomain. Blogger does provide a hosting solution for those that do not want to spend on hosting, but want their own custom domain name.

  3. plin
    December 19th, 2008 @ 1:13 am

    I have a question regarding the CNAME configuration. I didn’t see anywhere in which it says the CNAME configuration is for the subdomain and is optional. Can you point me to where you found that information?

    I am currently using freedns.com but I am getting the following error:
    please use an A record instead — the delegation records for interfere with the use of a CNAME (rfc1034 section 3.6.2)

  4. Sammy Ashouri
    December 19th, 2008 @ 2:38 am

    Hey Plin,

    I managed to get the settings correct with the Dynadot registrar. It seemed for some reason that things were “opposite”… For the A Record, type: 216.239.32.21 (Where that option is available) and then for the CNAME (where it lets you do subdomains), use WWW as the subdomain, and then select CNAME as the record type and use pub-xxxxxxxxx.afd.ghs.google.com (where pub-xxxxxxxxx is your unique ID listed on the AdSense setup page) as the IP address.

    Does your registrar not support it? If they don’t, I would send them an e-mail and let them know about the situation. Which registrar is your domain currently at? I’ll try to see if I can get some instructions for you.

  5. plin
    December 19th, 2008 @ 11:21 am

    I was able to get it configured after tweaking it a little bit. Now I will just to wait until Google approves my domains.

    Thanks for getting back to me.

  6. Steve Jenkins
    December 19th, 2008 @ 11:36 am

    I wouldn’t bother with Google AdSense for Domains, your probably going to make more rev from standard AdSense ads by parking with parking sites like VentureNames.com, also not meaning to be too controversial but I don’t want to inform Google of the domains/traffic I have in my portfolio either..

  7. MoneyMan
    December 19th, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

    But the real questions are:
    Are the landing pages any good?
    Are people clicking any ads?
    Are you making any money???

  8. Sammy Ashouri
    December 19th, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    Anytime ;)

    @ Steve: Well, it should technically be the same since the advertisers are pulled from the AdSense for Content advertising pool. The only problem is that these pages are hideous compared to other domain parking companies.

    @ MoneyMan:

    Landing pages are ugly, much less clicks, CPC isn’t THAT bad… I’m going to be trying other domains that have a better CTR at other domain parking companies and then report back on the blog with a blog post regarding my experience.

  9. plin
    December 23rd, 2008 @ 7:14 pm

    I agree that currently the pages are hideous and can use some improvement. (I do hope Google will provide better templates down the road.)

    However, since other parked domains are using Google ads, don’t you think cutting out the middle man can provide individuals with a higher payout?

    I do share your concern regarding Google having too much data already =)

  10. JD
    January 14th, 2009 @ 1:38 pm

    Thanks for the tips, but after making the suggested changes exactly like you said, [url=https://www.dynadot.com/account/forum/f7-domain-name-help/advanced-dynadot-dns-settings-for-adsense-for-domains-parking-3236.html]getting a confirmation from Dynadot[/url] that they are correct, and waiting 3 days, the domains were still not working at Adsense.

    So I have parked them elsewhere.

  11. Sammy Ashouri
    January 14th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm

    JD, the settings didn’t work and you followed them 100%?

    It took me about 24 hours to stop getting trickles of traffic to my other parking providers before it was going straight to Google… but 3 days is an awful long time. If you give it a go again, let me know… maybe we can spot the issue.

  12. Gumtree
    April 5th, 2009 @ 9:09 pm

    Thanks! This helped alot. And really easy to setup.

  13. azmath
    August 2nd, 2009 @ 10:33 am

    i folowed your guidance, can you please what name server should I add. I have done everything except name server.

  14. rod
    August 10th, 2010 @ 4:04 am

    follow the instructions, and just need to wait for that to propagate the DNS settings.

    Thank you very much

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