Forward a domain

Turn on

In the Forwarding tab, enter the full address with http:// or https:// under Target address, for example https://discord.gg/yourserver or the address of your shop, and save with Save forwarding. From then on, yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com forward there.

When you turn it on, the A records of @ and www are set to the forwarding host. Whatever was there before is overwritten: a website or server under the domain is no longer reachable afterwards. Other records in the zone, such as play for Minecraft or MX for mail, stay untouched.

What it can and cannot do

• Only http://yourdomain.com forwards. For https:// the forwarding host would need a certificate for your domain, which is not available there yet. Anyone opening https:// gets a certificate warning or no response.
• You choose the type: 301 · permanent (browsers and search engines remember the new target) or 302 · temporary.
• Paths are not carried over: yourdomain.com/something lands on the target address, not on target/something.
• The page rejects a target on the same domain, because that would be an endless loop.
• It only works while the domain points to ns1 and ns2.citexnode.de.

Turn off

Turn off forwarding (or emptying the target and saving) deletes the two A records for @ and www. Whatever was there before you have to recreate in the DNS editor; we do not restore the old values.