Knowledge base
Create a permanent Gcore API token with a Managed DNS role and connect it, so your domains' DNS is served from your own Gcore account.
Connecting your own Gcore account lets a domain's DNS be served from your account instead of ours. You keep the zone, the bill and the vendor dashboard; we create and update the records your sites and mailboxes need, so you do not copy them by hand.
A Gcore account with Managed DNS available on it.
In the Gcore Customer Portal, open your avatar at the top right, then Profile → API tokens → Create token. Name it, choose Never expire or an expiry date, and give it a role for each product it needs. Gcore shows the token once; copy it then.
The same token works for every Gcore product you connect, so if you have already connected one Gcore product you can paste the same token again — provided its roles cover this product too. A token cannot be given a higher role than your own login has.
For DNS, give the token a role for Managed DNS.
Open Integrations in your dashboard and choose Connect an account. Pick Your own DNS as the group and Gcore DNS as the account, fill in API token, and press Connect account.
We test what you paste before anything is saved. A key that does not work is never stored, and the answer says what was wrong with it. A key that works is kept encrypted in our secrets vault — never in our database — and is never shown again, not even to you.
DNS is served from. We create the zone there if it does not exist and write the records the domain's sites and mail need.
add a mailbox — we update the record on your account.
registered with us, or at a registrar you have connected, we set them for you; otherwise the domain's page shows the nameservers to set.
The checklist beside the connection shows which of those we could confirm.
Your zones do not appear. The token's role does not include Managed DNS. Create a token that does.
It says the key was rejected. Almost always one of three things: a space or a line break copied with it, a key that has expired, or a key that was revoked or regenerated after you copied it. Create a fresh one and paste it again.
It connects, but something later fails. The key authenticates but lacks a permission the action needs. Create a new key with the permissions listed above, then disconnect the old connection and connect the new key.
Open Integrations, find the account and press Disconnect. That deletes the stored key at once. Anything that was using it stops at its next action, and the screens that depended on it say so rather than failing quietly.
Disconnecting does not undo what was already done — records, deployments or settings we changed on your account stay as they are. If you think the key itself may have leaked, also revoke it at the vendor; disconnecting removes our copy, not theirs.
What we have been writing about hosting, SEO and running sites at scale.
How hosting shapes indexing and link equity in 2026: keeping pages indexed, vetting aged domains before you build on them, link building without a footprint, and an honest line on what infrastructure can and cannot do for SEO.
Read the post →A practical checklist for fast, secure WordPress: server-level caching, a per-site object cache, the handful of plugins worth running, keeping the stack current, and the WooCommerce pages you must never cache.
Read the post →What actually separates good managed hosting from a cheap box with a control panel — migrations, backups, isolation, real caching and honest scaling — and how to judge it before you commit.
Read the post →Support is included on every plan, the desk is open 24 hours a day, and you can write to us in any of our 58 languages — we answer you in yours.
Contact support → All articles →