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title: "Connect Dotdigital to Nextdns - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in Dotdigital, your agent runs \"Add allowlist domain\" in Nextdns."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-nextdns"
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# Connect Dotdigital to Nextdns

When **Contact Created** fires in [Dotdigital](https://apiant.ai/connections/dotdigital), your agent runs **Add allowlist domain** in [Nextdns](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Dotdigital **5** triggers Dotdigital **9** actions Nextdns **13** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Dotdigital and Nextdns to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Dotdigital can start in Nextdns

- When **Contact Created** in Dotdigital then **Add allowlist domain** in Nextdns
- When **Campaign Activity** in Dotdigital then **Add denylist domain** in Nextdns

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Dotdigital and Nextdns

## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 22 actions

- Trigger

**Campaign Activity**

Triggers when a contact's activity (opens, clicks, replies, bounces, unsubscribes) on the selected email campaign changes.

- Trigger

**Campaign Opens**

Triggers when a contact opens the selected email campaign.

- Trigger

**Contact Created**

Triggers when a new contact is created in your Dotdigital account.

- Trigger

**Contact Suppressed**

Triggers when a contact is suppressed in your Dotdigital account (unsubscribed, bounced, complained or blocked), with the reason.

- Trigger

**Contact Unsubscribed**

Triggers when a contact unsubscribes from your Dotdigital account.

- Action

**Create a List**

Creates a new contact list (address book) in Dotdigital.

- Action

**Create Contact Data Field**

Creates a new contact data field in your Dotdigital account, such as a birthday or loyalty tier, for storing information about contacts.

- Action

**Create or Update Contact (Deprecated)**

Creates a contact, or updates the existing contact with the same email address, and adds it to the All contacts list. Uses Dotdigital's deprecated contact API; prefer Create or Update Contact for new automations.

- Action

**Refresh Segment**

Starts a refresh of a Dotdigital segment so its membership is recalculated, and returns the refresh status.

- Action

**Resubscribe Contact**

Resubscribes a previously unsubscribed contact to your account, sending them a re-subscription challenge email when Dotdigital requires one.

- Action

**Send Email Campaign**

Sends an email campaign to lists, segments or individual contacts, either immediately or at a scheduled date and time.

- Action

**Send SMS**

Sends a single SMS message to a mobile number, unless that number has opted out of SMS. Long messages over 160 characters are charged as multiple messages.

- Action

**Send Transactional Email**

Sends a transactional email, such as an order confirmation or password reset, with your own HTML or plain-text content. Not for marketing content.

- Action

**Unsubscribe Contact**

Unsubscribes a contact from the whole Dotdigital account by email address, and returns the suppressed contact with the date and reason.

- Action

**Add allowlist domain**

Add a domain to a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Add denylist domain**

Adds a domain to a NextDNS profile's Denylist so DNS queries for it are blocked.

- Action

**Add profile**

Creates a new NextDNS profile, optionally with its security, privacy, parental control, denylist, allowlist and settings configuration.

- Action

**Clear logs**

Clears all DNS query logs for a NextDNS profile.

- Action

**Delete allowlist domain**

Remove a domain from a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Delete denylist domain**

Removes a domain from a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**Delete profile**

Deletes a NextDNS profile by its ID.

- Action

**Get profile**

Retrieve a NextDNS profile by id.

- Action

**List allowlist domains**

List domains on a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**List denylist domains**

Lists the domains on a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**List profiles**

Lists the profiles in the connected NextDNS account.

- Action

**Update performance settings**

Update a profile's performance settings (ECS, cache boost, CNAME flattening).

- Action

**Update profile**

Updates an existing NextDNS profile by ID. Only the sections you fill in are changed.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Dotdigital** Dotdigital is a customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketers to create highly...](https://apiant.ai/connections/dotdigital)
- [ **Nextdns** Cloud-based DNS filtering service for blocking malware, ads, and trackers, with an API to manage profiles...](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Dotdigital

- [ **Dotdigital to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-hubspot)
- [ **Dotdigital to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-salesforce)
- [ **Dotdigital to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-slack)
- [ **Dotdigital to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-google-sheets)
- [ **Dotdigital to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-gmail)
- [ **Dotdigital to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-google-calendar)

## More into Nextdns

- [ **HubSpot to Nextdns** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-nextdns)
- [ **Pushbullet to Nextdns** Pushbullet lets you send and receive pushes (notes, links, files) across your devices and to people, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pushbullet-to-nextdns)
- [ **Telegram to Nextdns** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-nextdns)
- [ **Salesforce to Nextdns** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-nextdns)
- [ **Slack to Nextdns** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-nextdns)
- [ **Google Sheets to Nextdns** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-nextdns)

Questions

## Dotdigital and Nextdns, answered

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### What can start an automation from Dotdigital?

Any of Dotdigital's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Created, Campaign Activity, Campaign Opens and Contact Suppressed. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Nextdns when something happens in Dotdigital?

Any of Nextdns's 13 actions, including Update performance settings, Update profile, Add allowlist domain and Add denylist domain. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from Nextdns to Dotdigital?

Nextdns has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Dotdigital. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Nextdns's API documentation and adds it.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Dotdigital or Nextdns?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

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### Can my AI client use Dotdigital and Nextdns without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

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### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
