Domain Authentication for outbound email is set up through DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). DKIM allows recipient mail systems to verify that messages sent from ARI are authorized by your institution’s email domain, which helps improve deliverability and reduce spam filtering.
Along with authenticating your domain, link branding should be configured. Links sent by ARI are wrapped in a special URL which allows us to provide you open and click tracking information. Setting up link branding, changes the special URL to your institution’s domain.
Send this link to your IT department. These steps must be completed by your IT Administrator.
Add the necessary CNAME records listed below to your DNS.
If any of these values are already in use by your institution, let us know by sending an email to support@arirecruiting.com. We will generate custom values for you.Once the values have been added to the DNS, please send an email to support@arirecruiting.com to let us know.
We will validate the DKIM values and will then provide you two more values for the Link Branding. If your institution uses a an External and Internal DNS, the link branding values should be added to both.
Link branding allows all click-tracked links and open-tracked images in your emails to originate from your domain instead of from sendgrid.net. This helps email deliverability because it ensures that you don't need to rely on click tracking going through a domain that you don't control.
Important Note: Domain Authentication only needs to be set up once per institution. After it has been set up for one sport using ARI, it is set up for all sports using ARI, even if new teams sign-up for ARI after Domain Authentication was already configured.
CNAME Configuration
Replace example.edu in each Host with your own email domain
Type | Host | Value |
CNAME | ari.example.edu | u11963279.wl030.sendgrid.net |
CNAME | s1._domainkey.example.edu | s1.domainkey.u11963279.wl030.sendgrid.net |
CNAME | s2._domainkey.example.edu | s2.domainkey.u11963279.wl030.sendgrid.net |