About Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs)

A certificate signing request (CSR) is a file that contains information that is used when generating an SSL certificate. It will contain information about the domain name and a public key that is used to encrypt information.

For most customers, we recommend letting us generate the CSR. We can take care of it automatically. If we generate the CSR, we will temporarily have a copy of the private key for the certificate. For security reasons, we delete our copy of the private key 30 days after the certificate is issued.

If you are already familiar with CSRs and either have your own or can generate your own, you can choose to upload your CSR during the certificate set up.

Pointing to Shopify

Please follow these steps to point a domain to Shopify:

  1. Log into the Domain Name Management System.
  2. Click the domain to update.
  3. If Custom DNS is already on, click Edit DNS.
    If Custom DNS is not on, click Use our DNS, and confirm changing the name servers.
  4. Select CNAME (Parking) from the Add New Record menu, enter this information, and click Add Record.

    Alias: www
    Points To: shops.myshopify.com
  5. Select A from the Add New Record menu, enter this information, and click Add Record.

    Host Name: @
    IP Address: 23.227.38.65

Phone Calls from Pair Domains

There are a few reasons Pair Domains might call you. When we call, we will not ask you for your password or credit card information. You should be suspicious of any call that requests your password or credit card information.

Verification Calls
When you provide a phone number for your account, we need to verify that it can reach somebody. Many verifications can be handled by SMS (text). You can also request an automated verification call from within your account.

If the phone number requires selecting a menu option, entering an extension, or leaving voice mail, you can contact us and request a call back to verify the number. If we leave voice mail, we will provide a verification code. The code can be entered in your account, it can be emailed to us, or you can call us and provide the code.

Two Factor Authentication
If you set up to factor authentication and are locked out of your account, we will need to turn it off so you can log in. We may call you to confirm that you want to turn it off. These calls are only made in response to a request that you make. If we are unable to speak to you, we can leave voice mail with a verification code. You can email the code to us or you can call us and provide the code.

Changing Contact Information
Changes to the Registrant (Owner) contact information have to be approved by the current contact and the new contact. Most of these changes can be handled through email. However, if the current owner email address does not work, we might call you to get approval for changes. If we are unable to speak to you, we can leave voice mail with a a verification code. You can email the code to us or you can call us and provide the code.

Many of these phone calls are made in response to a request from you. However, we might call if we become aware that a domain where the Registrant email address does not work.

Verifying a Domain with Google

Using Google’s Search Console requires verifying that you own a domain. Before starting, check the DNS settings for your domain. If you use our name servers, we can help with verifying a domain. If you use other name servers, you should contact your web host and/or DNS provider to check what methods of verification they support.

These steps will work if you use our name servers:

  1. Log into your Google account.
  2. Go to https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome.
  3. Select Domain as the property type.
  4. Enter the domain without www. in the front, and click Continue.
  5. Google will display some text that starts with google-site-verification= and is followed by a string of characters. Copy that text.
  6. Log into our Domain Name Management System.
  7. Click the domain to update.
  8. If Custom DNS is already on, click Edit DNS.
    If Custom DNS is not on, click Use our DNS, and confirm changing the name servers.
  9. Click Add New Record.
  10. Select TXT from the Add New Record menu.
  11. Enter @ as the host name and paste the text from Google into the text field.
  12. Click Add Record.
  13. Go back to Google and click Verify.