DNS registration instructions out of order

🪳 Bug Reports
1

As discussed in this archived thread folks who have DNSSEC already enabled through Google Domains are getting a “DNS server responded with NXDOMAIN…Once enabled, click Refresh to see if you can move to the next step” error message at the first stage (“ENABLE DNSSEC”) of registration, sending folks down a rabbit hole to try to fix what’s not broken. The solution is to skip that step and proceed directly to adding the TXT record, but that is not at all obvious and makes the new user experience a lot more blocking than it should be.

I’d suggest that the order of the instructions be flipped, instructing the addition of the TXT record first, and/or fixing whatever bug is causing the error to be reported when checking for DNSSEC.

2

Great feedback! The docs repo is public. Your suggestion/edit can be submitted as a PR if you’re up for it, then the ENS Labs team can merge it.

3

I think the fix would go not in standalone docs, but on the page content displayed when accessing a URL of the form https://app.ens.domains/name/mydomain.com, which is the result of typing mydomain.com into the main “search names or addresses” box.

4

The short version of this would be to swap steps 1 and 2 in DNS Registrar guide - ENS Documentation and also swap those in the in-application workflow.