Add Your First Domain

Before adding a new domain, please ensure that the service for the corresponding product has been activated. If the service has not yet been activated, please reach out to CDNetworks technical support to enable the service.
Once the service is enabled, follow the steps outlined below to add a new domain.

1. Log in to the Console

Upon notification from CDNetworks that your service is active, you can:

1. Log in to the CDNetworks Console and select the appropriate product.
2. Navigate to the Configuration, click Add New Domain.

2. Configure Domain Information

Contract-item
Choose the product and contract associated with the new domain. Once the domain is added, it will automatically be assigned to the contract control group.

Domain Type
Choose Domain or Domain Alias (a substitute name for a domain, typically used to point multiple domains to the same network service or website).

Customized Control Group
A customized control group is a collection of domains you select. By choosing a customized control group, the newly added domain is included in this collection. With the domains in the same control group, you can manage these domains and view their analysis data by selecting control group.

Domain

• Acceleration domains generally use subdomains or wildcard domains. For example, *.cdnetworks.com is a wildcard domain, console.cdnetworks.com, and www.cdnetworks.com are its subdomains or second-level domains, cdn.console.cdnetworks.com is a third-level domain.
• If you need to add a wildcard domain, please enter .cdnetworks.com, for example. Once the wildcard domain is created, CDNetworks will by default also provide acceleration services for second-level domains under the wildcard domain, but not for third-level domains, which need to be added separately.
• Wildcard domains and subdomains must be under the same account.

Back-to-Origin IP/Domain

• Own Origin: Enter either IP or domain, choose one.
  • Back-to-Origin IP: Support for entering up to 64 IPs, separated by ;. Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
  • Back-to-Origin Domain: Only one domain can be configured.
• WCS Origin: Customers using CDNetworks object storage as the origin can directly choose to go back to the WCS origin by clicking on WCS origin.

Operation

• Delete: Remove the corresponding domain configuration.
• Back-to-Origin Detection: Enter a URL to verify the origin’s availability. This test is triggered once upon clicking “Detect” and is not performed periodically.
• Add: Add a new domain configuration.
• Batch Add: Allows the addition of multiple domains with the same back-to-origin IP/Domain in bulk.

Up to 300 domains can be added at once, separated by line breaks; multiple back-to-origin IPs can be added, separated by ;.

Acceleration Region
If the contract’s region includes China, an Acceleration Region option will appear. Select Including Mainland China or Excluding Mainland China based on the domain’s required service area.

• Selecting Including Mainland China means prioritizing Mainland China nodes in the CDN acceleration service. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology regulations, the domain must pass a filing review. Upon domain addition submission, the system also conducts a filing check. For details, see the “Submit Configuration” section below.
• Selecting Excluding Mainland China means the system will not perform a filing check, and Mainland China nodes will not provide acceleration services for the domain.

Acceleration Configuration

• Copying settings from an existing domain: Select an existing domain as a reference, applying its configuration to the new domain.
• Customized settings: You can configure cache rules here, or configure later after your new domain submitted and approved.

Tips:
These configurations cannot be applied to the new domain by referencing an existing domain: Basic Origin, Advanced Origin, Back-to-Origin Request Host, Back-to-Origin Request Port, Forward Client IP.
After selecting a domain, you can view its current configurations. This view only displays general console configurations. For special configurations done by technical support, please contact technical support.

3. Submit Configuration

After you have completed setting the configurations, please click Submit to submit your configuration.

If you selected Including Mainland China for the Acceleration Region, the system will perform a ICP filing check on the domain you submitted.

• If the ICP filing check is passed, it will show “with ICP filing”. You can select all filed domains and click Submit to submit the configuration.
• If the ICP filing check is not passed, it will remind that the domain is “without ICP filing”. Please complete the domain’s ICP filing before submission; if you click Submit without completing the ICP filing, the configuration will be forwarded to manual review, and the domain status will show “Reviewing”. Domains under manual review, utilizing Mainland China acceleration services, will fail to be added if the manual review does not uncover ICP filling.

Tips: If the status of the newly added domain remains “Reviewing” for more than 5 minutes after submission, it may be due to the following reasons, please contact technical support for assistance.

• Domain for acceleration in China has not been filed, please file the domain first.
• The domain has special configurations that cannot be audited automatically.
• The main domain of the new domain already exists under another customer, causing a domain conflict.
• There is a configuration conflict between the new domain and the referenced domain.

4. Deploy on Production

After the configuration review is passed, the platform will dispatch the domain configuration information to the online nodes and make it effective within 1~2 minutes, and the platform will also send an email notifying the successful addition of the new domain to your mailbox. You can also view the progress of adding a domain in the Console>Configuration, where the status of Enabled indicates that the domain has been successfully added.

After deployment is effective, the system will assign a corresponding CNAME address to you, and you need to complete the CNAME configuration for the acceleration service to take effect. Refer to Configure the CNAME Record for details.