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DNS Records Setup for 123-Hosting

October 3, 2023

To get started setting up your store on your own domain using our platform, visit our website, www.gearlaunch.com/platform and click on “JOIN US TODAY.”

Click on the “LOGIN” button. Use  your Gmail address and password to log in.

Fill out the Gear Launch Seller Registration Form and then click “Submit.”

Accept the GearLaunch Seller Agreement.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page; add your Domain registrar and your Domain then click the “Submit” button.

It usually takes less than 24 hours to receive approval for your store.  You’ll be notified by email once it’s approved.

After your store gets approved, you can log in to your GearLaunch account. In your dashboard, click on the green bar that says, “This GearLaunch site is not launched yet! Click here to see your DNS settings page.”

Next, click on the “Check DNS records” button.

Copy the values from here to update your domain registrar with these DNS records and values.

Go to your domain registrar website and log in to your account.

Update your DNS records with the information you got from your GearLaunch dashboard.

Once you’re set up with your GearLaunch account, log into your registrar account. Click on “Control panel” at the top of the site or click on.

The next step is clicking on the “Domain Names” option in the center of the website.

In the next part You need to search your domain name into the Domain list using the search bar if necessary and later click on the "Manage" button.



In this section You will see the configurations of your domain for the DNS records and the Email Forwarding.

For the DNS records you should click in the Manage DNS option and proceed to add the indicated records in the Gearlaunch website.



For the Email forwarding, you should scroll until you see the Manage Email option, click in Manage Email option, in the next window you need to click on “Create” option and select the option “Forward” to set up Email Forwarding from: support@yourdomain.com to support@customteesales.zendesk.com





Once you have updated your DNS records on your domain registrar, go back to your GearLaunch dashboard and click the “Verify DNS records” button.

When all the DNS records are verified, please wait for 24hrs for SSL generation and our confirmation email, then your store will be live and you will be ready to start selling!

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