Website redirection to Domain Broker Service Ads
August 2, 2020 | by iaur | posted as Failure, WordPress
Scenario
- You are getting a message about a Domain Broker Service advertisement
- Your website intermittently redirect to a different webpage and sometimes on your website
Your domain is parked
Firstly, you must investigate your DNS entries and look for A record with the value named “Parked“. This is designed by GoDaddy to let the internet know that your domain is taken and at the same time does not have an existing website.
Moreover, domain Broker Service Ads campaign is then use by the domain broker service and advertise it to people that has interest to your domain name. In other words, your domain is up for a bidding.
Resolution
This may be applicable to other domain service provider since mine is with GoDaddy I followed the steps below to resolved it.
Importantly, after adding your A records for your website’s IP address make sure to remove the entry for another record for “Park”, otherwise the you’ll be broadcasting two records (depending on the load balancer) and a redirection to your web server or GoDaddy’s Domain Broker Service Ads as a result.
- Log in to your GoDaddy DNS Control.
- Select your domain name from the list to access the Domain Settings page.
- Scroll down to Additional Settings and select Manage DNS.
- On the DNS Management page, next to the record you wish to delete (in our case is the A record with “Parked” value), click the pencil icon.
- To the right of the entry fields, select the trash can icon.
- Confirm deletion by selecting Delete in the new window.
- Confirm the DNS propagation using this link and check for multiple A record entry.
In conclusion, you will know that your redirection issue is resolved once you no longer see multiple A record entries for your domain except for your website’s IP address.
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