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How to warm up a new email sending domain (without burning it)

WHAT YOU'RE SEEING

You just set up a new domain for cold outreach and need to build sender reputation before scaling sends.

WHY IT'S HAPPENING

ESPs have no history on your domain. Sending high volume immediately looks like classic spammer behavior. You need to ramp up slowly to build trust signals.

How to fix it

  1. 1

    Week 1: send 5-10 manually crafted emails per day, to inboxes that will reply.

  2. 2

    Week 2: scale to 25-50/day. Mix of new and reply threads.

  3. 3

    Week 3: 100-200/day. Maintain reply rate above 5%.

  4. 4

    Week 4+: 300-500/day if reply rate stays healthy.

  5. 5

    Throughout: never bulk-send. Avoid attachments. Use plain text.

  6. 6

    Consider using a warm-up service for accelerated reputation building.

Where do I add these records? (by DNS host)

Records go in the DNS panel of whoever hosts your domain, not inside Gmail or Outlook. Find your host below.

Cloudflare

  1. 1.Log in and pick your domain.
  2. 2.Open the DNS tab, then Records.
  3. 3.Click Add record, choose the type (TXT/CNAME), paste the Name and Value, Save.
  4. 4.Tip: Conductor can apply Cloudflare records for you. Connect a token on your domain page instead of doing this by hand.

GoDaddy

  1. 1.Go to My Products, find your domain, click DNS.
  2. 2.Under Records, click Add.
  3. 3.Pick the type, enter the Name (Host) and Value, Save. Use "@" for the root domain.

Crazy Domains

  1. 1.Log in, go to My Account, then Manage next to your domain.
  2. 2.Open DNS / Manage DNS.
  3. 3.Add a record, choose the type, enter the Hostname and Value, Save.

VentraIP

  1. 1.Log in to VIPControl, open Domain Names, click your domain.
  2. 2.Choose Manage DNS / DNS Zone.
  3. 3.Add a record with the type, name and content shown above, Save.

Squarespace / Google Domains

  1. 1.Open Settings, then Domains, and pick your domain.
  2. 2.Choose DNS Settings, scroll to Custom Records.
  3. 3.Add the record type, host and data, Save.

Namecheap

  1. 1.Go to Domain List, click Manage next to your domain.
  2. 2.Open the Advanced DNS tab.
  3. 3.Click Add New Record, set the type, host and value, and save with the green tick.

Not listed? The steps are the same everywhere: find DNS or Manage DNS, add a record, pick the type, paste the name and value shown above.

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