Publishing and domains1 min readUpdated
Connecting your own domain
Use yourbusiness.com instead of the free address. Included from the Essential plan and in Founders 100.
Publishing on your own domain is included from the Essential plan, and for businesses in Founders 100. We connect a domain you already own: it stays yours and you keep paying your registrar for it.
Step by step
DNS records are a few lines you add wherever you bought the domain. They tell the internet where to send people who type it in. You don't need to understand them: just copy them exactly as they are.
- In your site's dashboard, under Settings, open "Domain" and enter your domain.
- We show you exactly which records to add, with a button to copy each value.
- Go to your registrar's control panel (wherever you bought the domain), DNS section, and add:
- A CNAME on "www" pointing to sites.suwebgratis.es.
- For the domain without www: an ALIAS or ANAME record (sometimes "CNAME flattening") to sites.suwebgratis.es. If your registrar doesn't have one, set up a redirect from yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com.
- A TXT record on _webfree-verification with the value we give you. It proves the domain is yours.
- Come back and click "Verify". DNS changes take from a few minutes to a few hours.
If it doesn't work first time, follow My domain isn't working.
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