Domain Management

Domain Management holds every domain on your account. You can register a domain with Coritan, transfer one in, or leave it at another registrar and host only its DNS here. A domain hosted here can then have DNS records, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, web proxies and a web application firewall (WAF).

The public Services page and its Domains, DNS and Edge Proxy pages describe the products and what each account plan includes. A domain's price shows in the dashboard when you search for it.

• How domain registration works
• Register a domain
• Transfer a domain to Coritan
• Renew a domain
• Change a domain's nameservers
• Turn on WHOIS privacy and transfer lock
• Transfer a domain to another registrar

• Add a domain you already own
• How DNS hosting works
• Add, edit and delete DNS records
• DNS record types
• Import and export a zone file
• Set up DNSSEC
• View DNS query statistics
• Delete a DNS zone

• View a website's traffic
• How SSL/TLS certificates work, choose an encryption mode, issue a certificate, upload your own and renew or remove one
• Protect a website
• Speed up a website with the cache
• Redirect visitors and set headers
• Manage a website's origin
• How DNS load balancing works, then create an origin pool and a load balancer

• Website settings
• Load balancing reference
• Troubleshoot websites and DNS

A free name under coritan.gg also appears in this list once you claim it. Claim a free coritan.gg name explains how.

In the dashboard, go to Domain Management. While a search or filter is on, a line under the heading says how many domains match ("2 of 5"). Each domain is one card, and the line under its name says how Coritan holds it:

The list holds every domain on the account, however many there are, and each one opens. A free coritan.gg name you claimed shows a coritan.gg badge.

Four tiles sit above the list. Each one is also a filter: select it to show those domains, and select it again to turn the filter off. On a phone, a tile shows only its figure.

• Websites counts every domain, with how many are registered here and how many are DNS only. Selecting it clears every filter and the search.
• On our network counts the domains that have at least one hostname our network serves, and shows the number of hostnames.
• Expiring counts the registrations with fewer than 30 days left, and those already past their date. A transfer that is still moving to Coritan is left out.
• Needs attention counts the domains with something to fix. It turns red while the count is above zero.

When a domain needs attention, a strip under the tiles says "3 websites need attention". It lists up to three domains, or one on a phone, each with the reason and a button. Show all filters the list to the rest. The strip is for the full list, so it is hidden while any filter or the search is on. A domain needs attention when:

• Its registration has expired. The reason reads "Expired 46 days ago. It can no longer be renewed here." and the button is Contact support, which opens Support. The dashboard cannot renew an expired registration (Renew a domain).
• Its registration has fewer than 30 days left and auto-renew is off. The reason reads "Expires in 12 days and will not renew by itself." and Renew now opens the page that renews the domain (Renew a domain), and Done brings you back to the list.
• The HTTPS certificate of one of its web proxies failed. The reason names the hostname, and See SSL/TLS opens that hostname's tab.

A transfer that is still moving to Coritan is not a problem, and the list does not count it as expiring.

The toolbar narrows and orders the list:

• The search box, "Search domains", finds a domain by its name.
• The Show menu holds All websites, Registered here, DNS only, On our network, Expiring and Needs attention, each with a count.
• The Sort by menu holds Name, A to Z (the default), Soonest to expire, Problems first and Most DNS records. In the table, selecting a column heading sorts by it, and the menu then names that column, such as "Sort: Status".
• Clear filters appears while the search or Show is on, and turns them off.
• Cards and Table switch how the list looks. Your choice stays in your browser. A phone always shows cards.
• Refresh reads the list again. A phone has no Refresh button, and the More website actions menu has Refresh. When your domains have tags, tag chips appear below the toolbar, and selecting one shows the domains with that tag.

The search, Show, the tags, the sort and the page stay in the address, so a reload or a shared link brings them back.

The list shows 24 domains a page. When there are more, page buttons and the range, such as "1–24 of 35", appear below it. A search or filter that matches nothing says "No matches", with a button that resets them.

A card shows the domain, which opens its website, a status badge such as Active or Expired, and the line from the table above. A coritan.gg badge marks a free name, and a badge for each tag of the domain follows it. Under them, a red or amber line says each problem once. Four facts follow:

The footer of a card holds these controls:

• A button for each problem, two at most, such as Renew now, Contact support or See SSL/TLS, or Open settings for a transfer that is moving in.
• Visit site, which opens the domain in a new browser tab. An expired or pending registration has none.
• The ... menu, named "More actions for" and the domain. It opens the domain's tab: Overview, DNS and Load balancing when Coritan hosts the zone, SSL/TLS, Security, Caching and Rules when a hostname is on our network, Origin and Settings. Copy domain name copies the name, and Renew domain… opens the renewal page for the domain. Renew domain… appears for a registration that is still active.

The Table view has the columns Domain (with its line), Status, DNS, Our network, Expires and Registrar. Expires shows the date, and the days left in the last 30 days or after the date has passed. Registrar shows the registration's Auto-renew, Locked and WHOIS privacy badges, or Manual renewal when none of them is on, and a dash for a domain with no registration here. A narrow window leaves out Our network and Registrar. Each row ends with an icon button that opens the domain in a new tab and the same ... menu, and selecting a row opens the website.

Add a website above the list opens the Add a website page, /dashboard/websites/new, which asks Do you have a domain? Register a new domain opens the domain order page, Use a domain I already have asks for the domain on the same page and then shows the nameservers to set at your registrar under Point your domain here, and Get a free coritan.gg name opens the claim page. The button at the foot of the page names the choice: Find a domain, Add domain or Choose a free name. Cancel and Done return to the list with its filter and page. The old list address /dashboard/websites?add=1 forwards to the page. A new account has no domains, and the list says No websites yet with one card for each of these ways in. The card for Use a domain I already have says you keep the domain with the company you bought it from and change its nameservers there to connect it. The free name card appears only when your account can claim one.

The More website actions menu holds the shortcuts: Register a domain, Transfer domain, which opens the order page in transfer mode, Add existing domain…, Get a free coritan.gg name…, View domain prices and Refresh.

Select a domain in the list to open it. Visit site opens the domain in a new browser tab. The tabs, in order:

Our network serves hostnames, so SSL/TLS, Security, Caching, Rules and Origin each work on one hostname at a time: the domain, or a name under it, with a web proxy. A tab opens on the hostname in its address (?host=), then on the one you last chose for the domain, then on the domain itself. Settings for at the top of the tab chooses another. On the Overview tab, a hostname with a web proxy links to its Origin tab, and the row menu of one on our network has Hostname settings and Security settings. A proxied A or AAAA record gives its name a web proxy (Proxied records).

A website opens on its Overview tab, which reads from the top:

Status

Website says whether visitors reach the site through our network, and how many of the domain's hostnames are on it, such as 3 hostnames are on our network. Certificate shows the domain's certificate, and Domain when its registration renews.

Hostnames

Every name in the domain that has an A, AAAA or CNAME record, a load balancer or a web proxy, the domain first. How visitors reach it reads Through our network, Straight to your server (DNS only), Redirects to … or Load balancer. Origin is where our network sends visitors, such as 203.0.113.10:443, 3 origins, or From DNS: 203.0.113.40 for a hostname that follows its proxied records. For a DNS only name, it is the record's content. HTTPS shows the hostname's certificate, and Protection whether the WAF is on, with Under attack mode and Hotlink protection when they are on. A line under a name points out a problem, such as No web proxy here, so visitors get an error page. The card lists 20 hostnames, and Show all lists the rest.

Traffic

The requests to the domain's hostnames, by hour and by hostname (View a website's traffic).

Plan and add-ons

What your account plan gives each website, while account plans apply to your account.

DNS queries and Nameservers

The queries the zone answered (View DNS query statistics), and the domain's nameservers.

The menu at the end of a hostname's row holds its quick actions. The message that confirms each one names the hostname, such as Under attack mode turned on for www.example.com. For a hostname on our network:

Clear cache…

Asks first, then drops every copy our network holds of the hostname's files: Cleared every file from the cache of www.example.com. Pages load those files from your origin until the copies build up again. You can clear one hostname's cache 30 times in an hour. When your plan does not include cache settings, the plan offer opens instead (Speed up a website with the cache).

Turn on Under attack mode…

Asks first. Every page a visitor opens on the hostname then asks a simple math question, and the answer lasts 20 minutes in that browser. While it is on, our network refuses scripts, API clients, webhooks and uptime monitors that send no browser headers, so select Turn off Under attack mode once the attack ends (Under attack mode).

Turn on development mode

For 3 hours, our error pages show your origin's address and what went wrong there (Use development mode while you debug). The row says how long it has left, and Turn off development mode ends it.

Hostname settings and Security settings

Open the hostname's Origin and Security tabs.

A hostname that redirects has no Clear cache… and no development mode. A DNS only name's menu has Put on our network…, which says what our network gives the name and opens its record on the DNS tab with Proxied turned on. Select Save record to finish. A CNAME record cannot be proxied, so for one the dialog asks you to change it to an A or AAAA record that holds your server's address. A name that reaches our network through another proxied name, such as a CNAME that points at one, has no web proxy of its own, so visitors get an error page there. Its menu has Set up a web proxy…, which opens its record. A load balancer's name and a mail server's name have no menu.

Registering a domain takes the price for the whole period from your account credit before Coritan registers it, so add credit first. View domain prices lists what each domain extension costs per year to register, renew and transfer.

• An account can host 100 DNS zones, and a zone can hold 1,000 records. When you reach a limit, the error names it.
• You cannot add a zone for Coritan's own domains or for a name under them. For a name under coritan.gg, claim it instead.
• You cannot add a zone inside another account's zone, or the parent of one.