Apart from the main panel domain, Adserver.Online uses several other domains for internal purposes (e.g., impression pixel, click tracking, etc.). The good news is that these domains can also be customized.
Feature availability
Adserving domains' customization is available starting from the Premium plan (not available on a Trial Premium plan).
Prerequisites
Firstly, you should own a spare domain. If you don't, you can buy one. You also must be able to configure it – you must have access to and know how to use the DNS management panel connected to the domain.
Please note we neither provide support for 3rd party services nor sell domains.
Advertising domain
The system uses three domains for ad-serving purposes. However, all of them are subdomains of a single domain, which we call the advertising domain.
We recommend using a separate top-level domain as an advertising domain. For example, if your business website is on example.com, you would use example.net for ad serving.
Technically, you can also use your 3rd-level subdomain (e.g., foo.example.com) as an advertising domain, but this way is not recommended.
How to configure
Let's say your advertising domain is example.com.
First, go to the Settings / White-label menu and press "Configure" in the "Adserving domains" section.
Second, enter your advertising domain "example.com" in the "Advertising domain" field.
After that, you need to configure four DNS records in your DNS manager using the data shown in the "DNS record" sections on the page:
- Create TXT record for adserving domain
- Create CNAME record for server domain
- Create CNAME record for tracker domain
- Create CNAME record for content delivery (CDN) domain
Finally, press the "Submit" button. The system will perform configuration tests, and if all is good, your domains will be applied.
Please note: DNS changes may not take effect immediately, so you must wait for some time. Generally, it depends on your domain settings and may take up to 24 hours.
SSL/HTTPS support
Once you successfully submit your custom domains, free Let's Encrypt certificates will be issued automatically.
Ad codes
Be aware that once you update ad-serving domains, you must replace all already installed ad codes, links, and endpoints with new ones taken from your panel.
Cloudflare
We recommend using Cloudflare (their free plan is enough) as your domain manager and secure proxy for your custom domains. It will give you additional protection, reliability, and performance.
When you use Cloudflare, you must configure Page Rules for your domain as follows:
- Select the needed domain in the Cloudflare panel
- Go to the Rules / Page Rules menu
- Create two rules. Be aware that the order of the rules is essential. You have to select the rule's options as shown below.
