Anyone who manages domains knows the dilemma: massive effort is poured into the main application, but the "small" surrounding tasks consume unnecessary time. You just want to set up a quick info@ address or check if that marketing redirect is actually being clicked. Suddenly, you find yourself maintaining mail servers or digging through access logs.
That ends today. We are expanding the OpusDNS platform with two essential building blocks that complete your domain management: Email Forwards and Domain Forward Statistics.
Here’s an overview of how to simplify your domain operations starting today.
1. Professional Email Infrastructure Without the Hosting Headache
Running your own mail servers is no longer a core business task for development teams in 2026. It is complex, error-prone, and scales poorly. Yet, every professional domain needs clean contact addresses.
With our new Email Forwards, we decouple the address from the mailbox. You create professional email aliases like hello@yourdomain.tld, and we route the traffic to where you are already working—whether that’s Gmail, Outlook, or another system. This is the ideal alternative to classic email hosting if you only need to receive and forward messages.
Performance & Privacy as Standard
We know that email is critical infrastructure. That’s why we didn’t build this system as an "add-on," but as a high-performance service:
- Speed: The average forwarding time is under 5 seconds.
- Scalability: The system is designed for high throughput and handles traffic spikes (e.g., transactional emails) without delay.
- Data Protection (GDPR): Privacy by Design is not just a buzzword here. We do not store email content. Mails are passed through, not archived: Your data belongs to you.
Routing That Grows With You
The feature is flexible enough for solo devs and large teams alike:
- One-to-Many: A single incoming address can distribute to multiple team members (e.g., sales@ -> 3 recipients).
- Catch-All Forwarding: Ideal for SaaS providers or testing environments. Route everything sent to *@yourdomain.tld to a central location without having to maintain individual aliases.
Of course, our API-First approach applies here too: Integrate the creation of email routes directly into your deployment processes.
2. Domain Forward Statistics: Data Over Gut Feeling
Until now, domain redirects were often a "fire and forget" solution. You set them up and hope for the best. But especially with domain migrations, marketing campaigns, or affiliate links, flying blind is not an option.
Our new Metrics Dashboard brings full transparency to your traffic flows and lets you analyze the performance of your domains.
Understand Your Visitors
We now provide you with the metrics you need to make informed decisions:
- Volume & Trends: Instantly recognize if a domain is gaining traction or if an old redirect can finally be shut down.
- Geo & Tech Stack: Where are your visitors coming from? Are they using mobile or desktop? The dashboard breaks down user agents, referrers, and countries of origin in detail.
The Feature for Power Users: If you use Wildcard Forwarding, our subdomain segmentation gives you a powerful tool. You can see exactly which subdomains are actively being requested. This is incredibly helpful for analyzing legacy systems and understanding traffic patterns that would get lost in normal server logs.
Up Next: Full Visibility (Coming Soon)
Transparency doesn’t stop at HTTP requests. We are already working on the next step for Email Forwards: Comprehensive Email Logs. Soon, you will be able to trace the full lifecycle of every message—including SMTP response codes, bounces, and timestamps. This gives you the tools to debug delivery issues yourself instead of waiting on support tickets.
Conclusion
With today's update, OpusDNS becomes the command center for your domain operations. No more maintaining servers, no more renewing certificates, and now: no more babysitting mail infrastructure.
The new features are live immediately. Sign up now and set up email routing
