Help · Configuration
Set up a custom domain
Serve your pages from your own domain: verification, DNS records, certificates, and what each status means.
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From the Artist plan, your pages can live at links.yourdomain.com instead of the DropRoute address. Ownership is proven with a DNS record, certificates are issued automatically, and the domain page always tells you exactly which record it is waiting on.
Add the hostname
Domains → Add domain. Use a subdomain you can dedicate — links.yourdomain.com or l.yourdomain.com — rather than the root, which usually already serves your site.
Create the two records
The page shows you a TXT record (proves ownership — its token is shown once) and a CNAME (points traffic at DropRoute). Create both at your DNS provider, exactly as shown. Propagation is usually minutes but can be longer; the page re-checks on its own.
Wait for Active
Statuses mean what they say: Pending verification (waiting on the TXT), Verifying, SSL provisioning (certificate being issued), Active (serving traffic). A domain serves fan traffic only when it is Active with a valid certificate — never half-configured.
After it is live
New shares can use the custom domain; existing DropRoute URLs keep working forever, so nothing already printed breaks. A daily re-check catches DNS drift — if a record changes months later, you get told instead of finding out from a fan.
When it does not go to plan
- Verification is stuck.
- The domain page names the record it cannot see. The usual cause is the record created at the registrar while DNS is actually hosted elsewhere, or a Name field that duplicated the domain (links.yourdomain.com.yourdomain.com).
- Removing a domain asks for my password.
- By design: detaching a hostname is how a stolen session would hand your domain to someone else, so it requires recent reauthentication.