Set up your first domain

Head to the registration page and sign up with your name and email address. You'll receive a verification email — click the link inside to activate your account.

New accounts include a 7-day free trial. A credit card is required to start the trial, but you won't be charged until the trial period ends.

After verifying your email, you'll be guided to the billing setup page. Enter your payment details to activate your free trial. Stripe processes all payments — your card details are never stored on our servers.

Once your trial is active, you'll have full access to all monitoring features, including add-ons, immediately.

From the Domains page, click Add domain and enter the apex domain you want to monitor (e.g., example.com).

OneDollarDNS will immediately begin domain discovery — scanning a comprehensive list of common subdomains and record names to surface active hosts under your domain. This typically completes within a minute or two. Discovery runs once when you add a domain; new subdomains created later won't be picked up automatically.

Click into your domain to see all discovered hosts and their current DNS records. Each host shows the record types resolved (A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS, CAA) and the last time it was checked.

If a host wasn't discovered automatically, you can add it manually using the Add host button on the domain page. Enter just the subdomain portion (e.g., staging to monitor staging.example.com).

If you have many hosts to add at once, you can upload a BIND-format zone file to import them in bulk. Click Upload zone file on the domain page (or attach a zone file directly in the Add domain dialog when first creating the domain). All valid host labels are imported and queued for DNS resolution automatically.

From this point on, OneDollarDNS monitors your DNS records automatically. When a change is detected — a record added, removed, or modified — you'll receive an email alert containing the exact before and after values for every change.

Alerts appear in the dashboard and on the domain page. You can acknowledge individual alerts or acknowledge all at once to keep your view clean.