DNS Park: Set up MX records

You’re now ready to set up Gmail as your business email for your domain (and, if you haven’t already, verify your domain).

To do this, you need to sign in to your domain host and direct the email for your domain to the Google Workspace servers. It’s like registering your new address with the post office when you move so that your mail gets delivered to the right place. We’ll walk you through the steps.

Before you begin

• Verify that you own your domain.

  Or, you can verify now with an MX record. We’ll show you how while you're setting up the MX records.

• Create user accounts in Google Workspace for your team.

  If your team members already use email with your domain (their email address ends with your domain), you have to create their user accounts in Google Workspace before you change any MX record settings. Otherwise, they won't be able to send or receive messages with their business address in Gmail.

1. In the DNS Park site, click DNS, then select Show All. 

   

1. Click the domain you'd like to use with Google Workspace.
2. Since DNS Park is your hosting service, and not your domain registrar, be sure that your domain points to DNS Park's nameservers. This will allow your MX record configuration to take effect.

1. Check the Del box next to all existing MX records.

   

2. Click Update All to delete all of the MX records. Don't worry, you'll add new ones in the next steps.

To direct your email to your Google Workspace account, you have to add new MX records to your domain. These are the records that you'll need to add:

1. Select MX from the Type drop-down list. 

   

2. Enter @ in the Mail Domain field.
3. Leave the default value of 3600 in the TTL (time to live) field.
4. Enter a priority of 1 in the Order field.
5. Enter ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. in the Mail Server field.
6. Click Update All. 

   

7. Repeat Steps 1 - 6, entering the remaining values (MX Server Address) from the table above, and setting the Priority values respectively in the Order field.  

   

8. Skip this step if you already verified your domain by another method (such as TXT record, HTML file, or meta tag).

   If you need to verify your domain:

   1. In the Admin console, scroll to the Get your verification code section and click the Copy button.
      
      
   2. Paste the value in the Value/Answer/Destination/Target column.
   3. Make sure the record's priority is set to Low or to 15 or greater.

   Note: If your registrar rejects the verification code, try deleting the period at the end of .com.