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You sent the invoice. But did it actually arrive?

Four DNS records decide whether your business email reaches an inbox, a junk folder, or the bin. Since Gmail and Microsoft began rejecting unauthenticated mail outright, a missing or misaligned record no longer means "filtered to spam": it means the mail is refused at the gateway and never arrives. Can you say what state yours are in? Almost nobody can, and that is the whole problem. Find out below, free, in seconds. Then fix it yourself, or pay me to fix it. Flat fee, done in a day, entirely by email. No phone calls.

Check your domain. Free, instant, no signup.

What you will see: confirmed problem · needs attention · configured · unable to determine. No email address, no account, nothing to sign up for. The check reads public DNS right here in your browser.

$500

One domain. Fixed within 24 hours of my checking it. Optional monitoring afterwards at $250 per month.

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Already know you want the fix? Click the "Pay $500 and Get Started" button, and I'll email you within the hour to collect your domain. Free findings first is always an option, and it's the top button.

Three questions, answered honestly

If you cannot answer that third one, it is not a gap in your knowledge. It is a gap in your records, and it has been there the whole time. Mail either arrives or it does not, and when it does not, nobody tells you. Silence from a filtered invoice sounds exactly like being ignored.

So which of the four is yours?

These are the records the checker above reads, and the records that decide it. Most small businesses have at least two of them wrong, and nobody told them, because the mail still "sends" either way.

RecordWhat goes wrongWhat it costs you
SPF Missing entirely, or ending in ?all or +all, which authorizes every sender on earth to send as you. Receivers cannot tell your real mail from a forgery. Your invoices start getting filtered.
DKIM Not published, on the wrong selector, or published as an empty key that has been revoked. Your mail is unsigned, so a forwarded estimate loses its trust chain and gets throttled.
DMARC Missing, or sitting at p=none, which only monitors and enforces nothing. Anyone can spoof your domain, and providers treat you as an unmanaged sender.
Alignment Sending through a platform whose domain does not match your SPF or DKIM. Mail passes one check and fails another, which is the worst outcome. Partial credit scores as suspicious.

Now read that middle column again. Which of the four could you rule out about your own domain, right now, without looking?

Pick your path

Path 1

Fix it yourself

Step-by-step guides for every finding the checker reports: exact record values, provider click paths, and how to re-check to verify.

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Path 2

Understand it first

Put your domain in and see the records read back to you in plain language, with the free findings sheet, before you decide anything.

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Path 3

Just have it fixed

You saw the evidence above for free. Send the domain, get a full findings sheet, pay only if you want the fix. Flat fee, by email.

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What you get for $500

Turnaround: findings within 24 hours of you sending the domain. The fix itself takes about ninety minutes of my time once you authorize the change.

Ready to just get it fixed?

Pay $500

Payment goes through PayPal, and I get your email address with it. I will write to you within the hour to collect the domain and start. Same-day, email only, no call. If you would rather see the findings first, use the form at the bottom of this page and pay only when you decide.

What is one invoice that never got a reply worth to you?

One quote you never chased, because you assumed it was a no. That is the number this price is measured against, and it repeats every week for as long as you own the domain. The fix happens once.

What the checker can and cannot tell you

A missing DMARC record is a fact the checker can verify. An SPF record over ten lookups is a fact it can count. But DNS records alone cannot prove your mail lands in the inbox, because placement also depends on content, volume, and sender reputation. What the records can now decide is whether a mailbox provider accepts the mail at all: Gmail and Microsoft reject unauthenticated senders in the SMTP dialogue once a domain sends 5,000 or more messages a day to their consumer addresses, and Microsoft's rejection reads 550 5.7.515 ... does not meet the required authentication level. The tool reports what is measurable and says so when something is not. A checker that scores you 87 out of 100 from DNS alone is guessing, and I will not guess.

What I will not promise

No inbox placement guarantee. I fix records and alignment. What a mailbox provider decides to do with your mail is theirs to decide, not mine, and anyone who promises you a placement number is guessing.

No bulk sending setup. If your real problem is that you are emailing people who never asked to hear from you, that is not a DNS problem and I will decline the work.

No legal or compliance conclusions. This is a technical fix on your records.

Who this is for

Monitoring, if you want it

$250 per month. A monthly re-scan, an alert if any record drifts or your sending reputation drops, and a quarterly review. Records break quietly when a platform changes something, and this catches it before your mail does.

When a record drifts, would you rather hear it from me, or from a customer who never got their invoice?

Start here. It costs nothing.

Put in your domain and your email. A confirmation message comes back to prove your address is real, then the findings sheet for your domain follows, free, the same day. No call, no obligation.

Or skip straight to the fix. Pay the $500 below, and I will email you within the hour to collect your domain and start.
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