One day Max Platt's,
Head of the Business Development Team, comes to your office.
The cloud widget project has been very successful and sales are up.
They just had a strategy meeting and the decision has
been made to expand the business overseas.
We're going to need a presence in Europe as
soon we will be setting up an office in the U.K..
But first we want to establish our brand over there.
Max asks, Is it possible to get our employees here to send
and receive email from an address that looks like it's in the United Kingdom?
Sure. That shouldn't be too hard just means we need
to play around with our domain and web addresses a bit.
When we signed up for G Suite we needed an Internet domain name.
Since we already own the domain name
CloudSola.com when the company was started we decided to use this.
It's the brand familiar to our customers.
So having our email and Google services tied to it worked well.
Also we knew that our users would sign in at this domain everyday for work.
So we wanted it to be a domain that best represented the company.
Now that wasn't a trivial decision.
You see the domain name we signed up with first is special.
It's called our primary domain.
And only one of these can be defined within a G suite account
and you can't change the name later without migrating to a new account.
Mac says, Okay I get it our domain is like
our web address and our primary domain is
the first and most important one we chose. Got it.
So how do we go about getting a new domain for our UK brand?
First we need to purchase a new domain name for our UK branding.
We should go back to the same service where we bought the domain name CloudSola.com.
So it will be easier to manage when accessing our DNS records.
Max says, "Wait didn't google give us that web address?"
No. We bought the domain from one of Google's partners a domain
registrar and hosting company like godaddy.com or enom.com.
They are a company that sells domain names that
aren't yet owned and are available for registration.
They look after the domain hosting and DNS records for us.
When using gsuite we sometimes need to modify
our DNS settings to set up various tools and services.
We do this by changing various types of DNS records.
We change our domains MX records for example to direct
email for our gsuite domain to Google's mail servers.
We manage DNS records through our account at
the domain host company not our Google admin console.
We will need to do this when we set up the UK brand.
Mac says, All right so what's next?
Well what do you want the UK brand domain name to be?
How about CloudSola.co.uk?
I've checked and it's available.
Max says, "Perfect let's go with that."
Okay. Now that I bought this domain name we can go back
to G suite and set this up as a domain alias.
Up until now things have been simple.
We only had one domain our primary domain.
Now we want to have multiple domain names where we do business.
The good news is we can add more domains to our Gsuite account at no extra cost.
We manage them from the same admin console
and support all our brands from one Google account.
Our users could even have an identity at one or more of our domains.
Depending on our needs.
We can add the new domains as a separate domain or domain alias.
However, it's important to be aware that when using
multiple domains there are some limitations and restrictions.
You can learn more about these by looking at the help center resources provided.
We've just bought a domain for our new UK brand and our users need
the option of sending mail with an email address at the new UK domain.
We can do that by adding it as a domain alias to our primary domain.
The following lessons will take you through setting up
a domain alias in the gsuite admin console.
Along with going through the in product training's ensure that you check out all of
the help center resources that are linked to learn more about managing your domain.