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Description

The Redirect object defines the redirecting of domains (domain redirect) or email addresses (email redirect).

Redirections are made via a dedicated server (IP address 62.116.130.8). Parallel to the entry in the redirect administration, the domain and the desired subdomain entries must be changed to this IP address! If you run your own name servers, you have to enter the IP address manually on your name server. If you only want to set up email forwarding without web forwarding, you must change the MX of the sources to point to the IP address 62.116.130.8. Please change the IP address of the subdomain used as MX. Domains are case sensitive. The system automatically converts email addresses to lower case letters.

Examples: Redirecting domains
example.com => example.de
example.com => example.de / subfolder / index.html

Examples: Redirecting email addresses
jane_smith@example.com => jane@example.de (mode=single)
@example.com=> jane@example.de (mode=catchall)

In addition to the MX record, a valid SPF record must be set on the source domain for email redirects. This ensures that our emails are also accepted.

Example:

v=spf1 include: spf-redirector.domain-robot.org ~all

If an SPF entry has already been made for the zone, this entry must be extended with the following include "spf-redirector.domain-robot.org"

Example

Zone entry of the customer:

v=spf1 a mx include: mail.example.com ~all

Zone entry with the additional include for forwarding:

v=spf1 a mx include: mail.example.com include: spf-redirector.domain-robot.org ~all

Structure

Keyword JSON	Keyword XML	Occurs	Type	Format	Description
created	created	0 - 1	string	date-time	Date on which the redirect was created.
updated	updated	0 -1	string	date-time	Date on which the redirect was updated.
owner	owner	0 - 1	object	BasicUser	Owner of the redirect object.
updater	updater	0 - 1	object	BasicUser	User who last updated the redirect.
sourceIdn	sourceIdn	0 - 1	string		The IDN version of the domain name. Domains can be entered with or without "www".
target	target	1	string	domain	The URL of the domain to which you want to redirect. Enter the domain without "https://".
targetIdn	targetIdn	0 -1	string	domain	The Punycode syntax (IDN) version of the target domain URL. Enter the domain without "https://".
title	title	0 - 1	string		Only for the "frame" mode. Page title to be displayed in the title bar of the browser.
backups	backup	0 - 3	string	domain	Backup destinations for the redirects. If the first destination cannot be reached, the domain is automatically redirected to the substitute destination (domain redirection, frame redirect).
lastSeen		0 - 1	string	date-time	Used for analytics, to keep track of when the DNS has been used.
domain	domain	0 - 1	string	domain	Domain that is to be redirected, e.g. example.com.
source	source	1			Domain that is to be redirected, e.g. test.example.com.
mode	mode	0 - 1	enum	Redirect_Mode Enum	The redirect mode of domain and email forwarding.
type	type	1	enum	Redirect_Type	The type of redirect.