email-toolbox-wiki/parked-domain-how-to.md

Introduction

This how-to is created by the Dutch Internet Standards Platform (the organization behind internet.nl) and is meant to provide practical information and guidance on explicitly configuring a parked domain not to use e-mail.

Null MX

Explicitly configure an 'empty' MX record according to RFC7505 .

example.nl IN MX 0 .

DMARC

_dmarc IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:rua@example.nl; ruf=mailto:ruf@example.nl

DKIM

selector._domainkey IN TXT "v=DKIM1; p="

SPF

example.nl IN TXT "v=spf1 –all"

Other tips and tricks

• Don't use an A or AAAA record for parked domains.
• Don't redirect from a parked domain to the used domain, since this encourages users to keep using the parked domain name.
  • If a redirect is used, make sure to use the proper redirect order in order for HSTS headers to remain effective:
    1. redirect from HTTP to HTTPS on the same (sub)domain.
    2. when using HTTPS, redirect to another (sub)domain.