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Getting started with DomainGuard

What DomainGuard watches, how to create an account, add your first domain, and what runs on its own versus when you press scan.

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DomainGuard watches the outside of a business domain: the certificate, the DNS and nameservers, the registration date, the email authentication records, the website's security headers and content, uptime, lookalike registrations, breach data for your mailboxes, and the known vulnerabilities in software your site runs. It reads public records and what your site already serves. It never changes DNS, renews a domain, edits a website, or reads a mailbox.

The web dashboard at nhmohio.com/dashboard and the DomainGuard iOS app share one account and one backend. Anything you add or fix in one place shows in the other.

Start here

  1. What DomainGuard does and does not do - the checks, the boundaries, and how results are worded.
  2. Create an account - email, Sign in with Apple, and email verification.
  3. Add your first domain - what the add sheet turns on by default and what a first scan covers.
  4. The domain setup guide - the per-domain checklist that is computed from real state, never ticked by hand.
  5. A tour of the web dashboard - Overview, Domains, Fixes, Security, SEO, Monitor, Reports, Compliance.
  6. What runs automatically - the line between Free and paid, and what "watched" means.
  7. Check any domain for free - the Check tab, the App Clip, and the public tools on the website.

Where to go next

  • Domains covers the health scan, certificates, uptime, change events, subdomains and groups.
  • Alerts covers the alert feed, notification settings, push, email and provider status.
  • Email authentication covers SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT and DMARC reports.
  • Plans and billing explains what each plan buys and how purchases work.

Three things to know on day one

  • Every plan holds unlimited domains and runs every core check on demand. Paying buys automation, alerts by email, and the two modules Free leaves out.
  • Nothing is invented. A dash means "not measured"; "nothing found" comes with the count of what was checked.
  • Every finding ends in a next action, with the record to paste where one exists.

In reading order

Articles in Getting started

  1. What DomainGuard does (and does not do)The checks DomainGuard runs on a domain, the rules every result follows, and the things it deliberately never does.Updated
  2. Create an accountHow to register with email or Sign in with Apple, verify your address, and what a free account holds from day one.Updated
  3. Add your first domainWhat the add-domain sheet turns on by default, what the first scan covers, and how to import a list of domains at once.Updated
  4. The domain setup guideThe per-domain checklist computed from what is actually set up: first check, alerts, email records, DMARC reports, ownership proof, monitoring and more.Updated
  5. A tour of the web dashboardWhat each section of nhmohio.com/dashboard shows: Overview, Domains, Fixes, Security, SEO, Monitor, Reports and Compliance.Updated
  6. What runs automatically, and what you pressThe line between Free and paid: how many domains are watched, what watched means on each plan, and what happens over the allowance.Updated
  7. Check any domain for freeThe Check tab, the signed-out welcome check, the App Clip, and the public tools on nhmohio.com. What each runs and what needs an account.Updated

Still stuck?

Ask the people who run the scanner.

Send the domain and what you expected to see. We look at the same scan you are looking at and write back with what it means and what to change.

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