Redirect Your Cold Email Domains to Your Website
Curious recipients (and some spam filters) will visit your cold email domain to check it is real. Redirect each cold email domain to your main website, so they land on your real business instead of an empty page.
Do this for each cold email domain.
1. Add DNS records for the domain
Cloudflare can only redirect traffic for hostnames that have a proxied DNS record. Because the domain doesn't host a website, the records point to a placeholder address.
In the Cloudflare dashboard, select your cold email domain (for example trybluecake.com), go to DNS > Records and add:
| Type | Name | Content | Proxy status |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | @ | 192.0.2.1 | Proxied (orange cloud) |
| CNAME | www | trybluecake.com | Proxied (orange cloud) |
192.0.2.1 is a reserved address that never hosts anything. It's the address Cloudflare recommends for domains that only redirect.
2. Create a Redirect Rule
Cloudflare used to do this with Page Rules, which have been replaced by Redirect Rules.
- Go to Rules > Overview and select Create rule > Redirect Rule
- Give the rule a name, such as Redirect to bluecake.com
- Under If incoming requests match, select All incoming requests
- Under Then, set:
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Static |
| URL | https://bluecake.com (your main website) |
| Status code | 301 |
| Preserve query string | On |
- Select Deploy
3. Test it
Open trybluecake.com and www.trybluecake.com in your browser. Both should take you to your main website. DNS changes can take a few minutes to start working.