# Send emails from your own domain

> Send your email blasts from your own domain, like maya@mayatorreshomes.com, with the records to add, steps for each DNS host, and what to do when your domain needs attention.

Source: https://averyiq.com/help/send-from-your-own-domain
Updated: 2026-11-10

Until you add your own domain, your email blasts go from AveryIQ's shared
address, like maya@myaveryiq.com. With your own domain they go from an
address like maya@mayatorreshomes.com.

- **It looks like you.** Clients see your name and your domain.
- **You can send more.** Up to 15,000 emails a month instead of 2,500
  ([How many emails you can send](https://averyiq.com/help/email-sending-limits)).
- **More of them land in the inbox.** Your domain builds its own reputation
  instead of sharing one with every team on the shared address.
- **No daily limit on people with no contact yet.** The shared address takes
  250 of them a day ([Who can get your emails](https://averyiq.com/help/who-can-get-your-emails)).

Nothing about your website or your current email changes. Replies still come
to AveryIQ at your shared address, and Avery files them on the person like
any other reply.

## Add your domain

Open **Settings → Email blasts → Your domain** and type your domain. You can
paste your website's address or your email address; AveryIQ keeps just the
domain. Only a team owner can add it.

Don't have a domain? Tap **Get a domain** and we'll buy one for you and set it
all up, for $20 a year ([Get a domain from AveryIQ](https://averyiq.com/help/get-a-domain)).

- **Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud and Outlook addresses can't be used.** Those
  domains belong to the mailbox company. Use a domain you own, or get one.
- **A brokerage's domain** (kw.com, compass.com, exprealty.com and others)
  needs your brokerage's IT team to add the records. Most real estate agents
  use their own domain instead: tap **Get a domain**, or **Use kw.com anyway**
  (with your domain) if your brokerage has agreed.
- **"This domain is already set up for sending"** means another team set it
  up first. If it's yours, contact us and we'll sort it out.

AveryIQ shows who runs your domain's DNS (for example "Your domain's DNS is at
GoDaddy") and whether mail to your domain goes to a mailbox today. If it does,
it keeps going there.

## Add the records

Six records are required and one is optional. Add them where your domain's
DNS is managed. It takes about 10 minutes.

| Record | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 3 records ending in `_domainkey` | CNAME | Proves the email is from you |
| `bounce` | MX | Handles bounces |
| `bounce` | TXT | Handles bounces |
| `_averyiq-verify` | TXT | Shows this domain is yours |
| `_dmarc` (optional) | TXT | Tells inboxes what to do with fakes |

The `_dmarc` record is offered only when your domain doesn't have one. If you
already have one, it stays as it is. AveryIQ never changes your domain's own
SPF record or your website's records.

Each record on the screen has **Copy** buttons for its name and value, and a
tick that turns green once we find it: ○ **Not found yet**, ✓ **Found**, or ⚠
**Found, but different** with what to fix.

There are three ways to get them added:

- **I'll do it.** Follow the steps for your DNS host below.
- **Send the steps to someone.** Shares a link to a page with the records and live
  ticks, for whoever manages your website or DNS. It shows only your domain's
  records.
- **Have AveryIQ do it.** We email you to set up a quick screen share, or you
  can give us access to your DNS. The screen shows where it stands.

## Checking

We check every few minutes at first, then less often, for 3 days. You can
close the app. Tap **Check now** any time. When everything's found, it says
"All records found. Confirming with our email provider, usually under an
hour." Then you get a notification that your domain is ready.

Leave all these records in place after it's ready, including
`_averyiq-verify`. Removing any of them later pauses emails from your domain.

Once it's ready, each person on your team chooses their address on it once
("Send as maya@mayatorreshomes.com?"). Until they do, their emails go from the
shared address.

If we can't find the records after 3 days, the screen says so, with **Check
again** and **Have AveryIQ do it**. We stop checking then, so once the records
are added, tap **Check again**. A domain that's never set up is let go after 7
more days.

## New domains

A new domain warms up on its own for 14 days: emails from it go out a little
more slowly, and the Review sheet says how long one will take. That's the
only difference. You can send to the same people from day one.

## If your domain needs attention

If records are removed later (often when a website moves to a new host), you
get a notification and the screen names what's missing. Emails can't go from
your domain until the records are back; nothing switches on its own.

- On the Review sheet, tap **Send from maya@myaveryiq.com instead** (it names your shared address), or
  **Fix it** to open the records.
- An email that was scheduled pauses at its time. Tap **Fix it**, or **Send
  from maya@myaveryiq.com instead**. The shared address takes 250 people with
  no contact yet a day, so any past that are left out of that email, and the
  rest has to fit the shared address's monthly limit. If it doesn't fit, it waits until the domain works
  again.

Once the records are back, paused emails carry on.

## Removing your domain

An owner can remove it from **Your domain**. It can't be removed while an
email from it is scheduled, sending or paused. Drafts switch to the shared address and
say so. You can add the domain again later.

## GoDaddy

1. Sign in to GoDaddy and open **My Products**, then **DNS** next to your
   domain.
2. Tap **Add New Record** for each record. Choose its **Type**, paste the
   **Name** and **Value** from AveryIQ, and for the MX record set
   **Priority** to 10.
3. GoDaddy adds your domain to the name for you: paste only the part AveryIQ
   shows (for example `bounce`), never the whole name.

## Cloudflare

1. Open your domain in Cloudflare, then **DNS → Records → Add record**.
2. Add each record with its Type, Name and Value.
3. **Turn the proxy off** for the CNAME records: the cloud must be grey
   (**DNS only**), not orange. A proxied record shows in AveryIQ as "Found,
   but different".

## Squarespace

1. Open **Domains**, choose your domain, then **DNS → DNS Settings**.
2. Under **Custom records**, add each record with its Type, Host (the Name in
   AveryIQ) and Data (the Value).

## Namecheap

1. Open **Domain List → Manage → Advanced DNS**.
2. Tap **Add New Record** for each one. Use **CNAME Record** and **TXT
   Record**; add the MX record under **Mail Settings → Custom MX**.

## Wix

1. Open **Domains**, choose **⋯ → Manage DNS Records**.
2. Add each record in its section (CNAME, TXT, MX) and save.

## IONOS

1. Open **Domains & SSL**, choose your domain, then **DNS**.
2. Tap **Add record** for each one. Turn off any setting that would replace
   your current mail records.

## Network Solutions

1. Open **My Domain Names → Manage → Advanced Tools → Advanced DNS Records**.
2. Add each record with its Type, Host and Value.

## Bluehost

1. Open **Domains**, choose your domain, then **DNS**.
2. Add each record in its section with the Host Record and Points To values.

## Hostinger

1. Open **Domains → DNS / Nameservers**.
2. Add each record with its Type, Name and value.

## Route 53

1. Open your hosted zone and tap **Create record** for each one.
2. Paste the Name, choose the Type, and paste the Value (MX: `10` and the
   address).

## If your website company manages it

Website companies for real estate agents (Placester, Lofty, BoldTrail,
Sierra, Real Geeks, AgentFire, Luxury Presence) often manage your domain's
DNS. Choose **Send the steps to someone** and send them the link, or ask us to do it.