Templates

Templates for use in the Domain Connect Protocol These map to the individual service providers for domain connect. See https://www.domainconnect.org/getting-started/

For details on how to constuct a Domain Connect template, refer to section 5.2 and 5.3 of the Domain Connect Spec:

https://github.com/Domain-Connect/spec/blob/master/Domain%20Connect%20Spec%20Draft.adoc#template-definition https://github.com/Domain-Connect/spec/blob/master/Domain%20Connect%20Spec%20Draft.adoc#template-record

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An Online Editor is available, with features like syntax check, testing of variables replacement and groups.

Template Naming Format

Templates should be named according the following pattern: providerId.serviceId.json

For example: myprovider.com.website.json

Template verification

Template can verify for correctness using JSON Schema template.schema. Passing the schema check is required for the Pull Request to be accepted into the repository.

Example Template Format

Following is an example of a complete Domain Connect template, with examples of various DNS records included:

{
    "providerId": "<Enter providerId>",
    "providerName": "<Enter providerName>",
    "serviceId": "<Enter serviceId>",
    "serviceName": "<Enter serviceName>",
    "version": 1,
    "logoUrl": "<Enter logoUrl>",
    "description": "<Enter description>",
    "variableDescription": "<Enter variableDescription>",
    "syncPubKeyDomain": "<Enter syncPubKeyDomain>",
    "syncRedirectDomain": "<Enter syncRedirectDomain>",
    "warnPhishing": true,
    "records": [
        {
            "type": "A",
            "host": "@",
            "pointsTo": "192.0.2.1",
            "ttl": 3600
        },
        {
            "type": "A",
            "host": "@",
            "pointsTo": "%a%",
            "ttl": 3600
        },
        {
            "type": "CNAME",
            "host": "www",
            "pointsTo": "@",
            "ttl": 3600
        },
        {
            "type": "CNAME",
            "host": "sub",
            "pointsTo": "%sub%.mydomain.com",
            "ttl": 3600
        },
        {
            "type": "CNAME",
            "host": "%cnamehost%",
            "pointsTo": "%sub%.mydomain.com",
            "ttl": 3600
        },
        {
            "type": "TXT",
            "host": "@",
            "ttl": 3600,
            "data": "%txt%"
        },
        {
            "type": "SPFM",
            "host": "@",
            "ttl": 0,
            "spfRules": "include:spf.mydomain.com"
        },
        {
            "type": "MX",
            "host": "@",
            "pointsTo": "%mx%",
            "ttl": 3600,
            "priority": 5
        },
        {
            "type": "MX",
            "host": "@",
            "pointsTo": "192.0.2.2",
            "ttl": 3600,
            "priority": 10
        },
        {
            "type": "SRV",
            "name": "@",
            "ttl": 3600,
            "priority": 10,
            "weight": 20,
            "port": 443,
            "protocol": "_tls",
            "service": "_sip",
            "target": "%target%"
        }
    ]
}

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