Mail forwards
As many of you have already noticed, we have added full SPF and DKIM signatures support to our mail forwarding service. This upgrade helps us to deliver the mails on time without spam filtration and rejections. If you manage your own mail server where the e-mails are forwarded to and want to switch to the old mail forwarding without DKIM signatures, you can use mailforward3.cloudns.net and mailforward4.cloudns.net instead of the standard mail forwarding servers.
Do not hesitate to contact our technical support, if you need any help with the mail forwarding configuration of your DNS zones.

Notes
We have added a new feature to our control panel — Notes.
The notes can be added for:

• Domain names
• DNS zones
• DNS records

The feature is not enabled by default. If you wish to use notes, you can enable them from «Web settings» in your profile.

Reseller Tools
HTTP API sub-users — a new feature for the customers with HTTP API access. Now you can create sub-users for HTTP API access. The sub-users can help you to improve your reseller integration via our HTTP API.
Every sub-user:

• has it's own ID and password key for access to the HTTP API
• has access to specific DNS zones, not to all DNS zones in your account
• has limited number of DNS zones and mail forwards
• can be used for different customers in your system

The HTTP API sub-users can be managed via your control panel or via the HTTP API methods for the main users.

The sub-users work with new HTTP API parameter auth-sub-id, instead of the parameter auth-id for the main users. More information can be found here.

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Big Birthday Bash -50% for all DNS hosting plans
New Big Birthday Bash Promotion with 50% discount for all existing and new customers for the next 5 days (from Mar 23 to Mar 27) for all Premium and DDoS Protected hosting plans.

• Premium hosting plans start from $0.99/month
• DDoS Protected hosting plans start from $2.45/month

Big Birthday Bash up to -89% for new domain name registrations

• .ME for only $34.99 $11.95
• .WS for only $19.99 $9.95
• .ASIA for only $15.49 $6.95
• .BIZ for only $12.49 $6.45
• .US for only $10.99 $6.45
• .PW for only $9.99 $5.95
• .IN for only $11.99 $5.95
• .SPACE for only $89.99 $9.99
• .GLOBAL for only $79.99 $19.99
• .HOST for only $99.99 $44.95
• .WEBSITE for only $21.99 $9.99
• .XYZ for only $12.99 $4.95
• .BID for only $28.99 $21.99
• .TRADE for only $28.99 $21.99
• .WEBCAM for only $28.99 $21.99

The promotion is valid for the first year for a new domain name registration until the end of March.

New Premium DNS location — Brazil!
After a lot of communication and tests we finally found the right place for our services in South America — Brazil! The new servers are available to all our Global Premium customers. Check your control panel and add the new Brazilian server to your domain names. The new location comes without any additional charges and the price of your current DNS hosting plan will not be changed.

New DDoS Protected DNS locations — Canada and France!
We have extended our DDoS Protected DNS service with two new locations, one in North America and one in Europe. The location in North America is Canada and in Europe is France. The new servers locations are available to all our Global DDoS protected customers. Check your control panel and add the new servers to your domain names. The new locations come without any additional charges and the price of your current DNS hosting plan will not be changed.

Private DNS Servers
We can offer to our clients who need full white-label and dedicated DNS, a completely new service, Private DNS Servers. They are with dedicated IP's and hostnames and can be used by hosting companies for complete white-label DNS branding. For the release of the Private DNS servers we give 10% live time discount for all new ordered servers. This promotion is valid until the end of March. The prices start from $19/month for DNS server that can handle over 5,000 domain names and 50 million DNS requests per day.

For your comfort the Private DNS servers can be used with all currently available DNS servers in your control panel. For example, if you have a StartUP plan with 15 DNS servers, you can add two Private DNS servers and the total DNS servers available for your domain names will be 17.

The Private DNS servers come with unlimited number of DNS zones, records and DNS requests. Everything depends on your DNS settings. For example, for 30,000 DNS zones with 100 records each, we recommend 2CPU cores and 2GB memory, but on the same server configuration can be hosted up to 100,000 DNS zones with 5 or 10 DNS records.

More information for Private DNS servers can be found here.

Thank you for being our Customer!
Cheers,
ClouDNS Team

Today we release a new service included in all our plans — Domain parking. The parking service allows you to display simple web pages on your domain names. Contact form can be added optionally to the page.

The first version of the service includes four web templates:

• ClouDNS Affiliate — Simple web page which displays the text «This domain name is registered for one of our clients.» and all links on the template point to your ClouDNS Affiliate link. Each new customer registered from your affiliate link will be linked to your account and you will receive lifetime commission for each payment made from this customer.
• Coming soon — Web page with title and text which you can enter. It can be used for new domain names, where the web sites are not yet released by you.
• Domain for sale — Template with simple text — your-domain.com is available for sale. It is a great choice with optional contact form, if you have domain names for sale.
• Simple cloud — Clean template where you can add title and message.
• All templates have an optional contact form, which can be enabled, if you want to receive messages from visitors of your parked domain name.

Parked domain zones can be registered the same way as you register the primary or secondary domain zones. With the parked domain zones you are able to:

• configure title, description, keywords and contact form, which will be displayed on the chosen template
• add TXT, SPF and MX records, if you need to use e-mail with the domain name
• manage the SOA settings, if you want to configure custom e-mail or TTLs
• use Mail forwards, if you don't have mail server, but want to receive e-mails sent to mail boxes with your domain name
• add Cloud domains, if you need many domain names with the same settings and template
• use DNS statistics for detailed information on how many DNS requests are sent for your domain name to our DNS servers
• share the parked zone with your friends or coworkers

Please contact us, if you have any suggestions or recommendations for additional options, which you need for your parked zones.

Regards,
ClouDNS Team