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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How do I connect a custom domain?

> Serve your club website on your own domain by adding a TXT record to prove ownership and a CNAME to point it at Uplifter.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * Available when a superadmin enables **Custom Domains** for your club. The panel then appears under **Website → General → Domain Settings**, below the subdomain field.
  * The hosting side of custom domains is not live yet. You can add a domain and publish its DNS records today, but a real domain cannot serve your site until Uplifter finishes that infrastructure.
  * Member sign-in, registration, checkout and the store always stay on your platform address (the club's own platform address you chose under **Domain Settings**); members will see the address bar change when they sign in. Set your subdomain first.
</Note>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add the domain">
    On **Website → General**, under **Domain Settings**, enter **Your domain** (for example `www.yourclub.com`) and click **Connect domain**. The toast reads "Domain added. Publish the DNS records below." The status starts as **Waiting for verification**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish the two DNS records">
    The panel **DNS records to publish at your domain provider** lists a **Name / host** and **Value / points to** for each, with a **Copy value** button. **Step 1 — proves you own the domain (does not change where it points)** is a TXT record at `_uplifter-verify.` in front of your host. **Step 2 — points the domain at your new site (the switch-over)** is a CNAME. Add both at your domain registrar. The panel also notes the `www` or root twin that redirects to the one you connected.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check">
    Click **Check now** (at most once every 10 seconds; the platform also re-checks every 10 minutes). DNS changes usually appear quickly but can take up to 48 hours. The status moves to **Verified** and then **Live**; **Failed** means the records did not resolve.
  </Step>
</Steps>

To take a domain off, click **Remove domain**; the confirmation warns that the hostname will stop showing your website within about a minute while your platform address keeps working. A club whose feature was later switched off can still see and remove an existing domain.

If your club's site is being served as a frozen copy of your old website, the copy is what your domain shows, and this panel stays on **Website → General** while the rest of the builder is hidden.

Some hosts are refused: your own platform subdomain, any platform-owned domain, a domain already live on another club's site, plain IP addresses, single words and wildcards.

**Related:** [How do I choose my web address?](/club/website/how-do-i-choose-my-web-address) · [How do I publish my site?](/club/website/how-do-i-publish-my-site) · [What is the Features page?](/club/get-set-up/what-is-the-features-page)


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