Your own domain

Serving your page on your own domain, with the right DNS records.

If you own a domain name, you can run your page on it instead of on a subdomain. Domains is where you arrange that.

You need access to your domain's DNS settings, which live at whoever you registered the domain with, for example TransIP, Versio, Hostnet, Cloudflare or GoDaddy.

Adding a domain

  1. Enter your domain name, for example yourband.com. Without https:// and without www.
  2. If you want www.yourband.com to work too, tick the option to redirect www along with it.
  3. Add the domain. You are shown the DNS records to set.

Only the bare domain is supported, unless you tick the www redirect option.

Setting the DNS records

Enter the records shown at your DNS provider. The app shows the type, host and value of each record, with a copy button on every field.

Every DNS panel writes records slightly differently. Some want the host name without your domain after it, others want it with, and some want a trailing dot on a value. There are toggles to adjust the notation; compare against the records already there and set the toggles to match your panel. What you copy changes along with them.

If a record already exists in the same spot, you are told so. Leave it alone; ours is only needed when there is nothing there yet.

Waiting for DNS

DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to become active everywhere in the world. In practice it is usually a lot faster, often within an hour.

Once the records are right, your domain is set up on the server and an SSL certificate is requested automatically, so your page is reachable over https://. While that is happening the status reads Being created and the domain cannot be removed. Try again a few minutes later.

If the records are not right yet, you get a message with the address the A record should point to. Check the record and try again.

Choosing the primary domain

With several domains, you mark one as primary. That is the address that officially counts. Visitors arriving on any of the others are redirected to the primary one.

That redirect is not cosmetic: search engines treat two addresses with the same content differently when it is unclear which is the real one.

Removing a domain

Remove a domain and your page stops being reachable on it right away. The DNS records at your provider do not disappear by themselves; remove those yourself if you are going to use the domain for something else.

Updated on 21 September 2026

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