Connect a custom domain

Every site has a free cloudzyro.app address, and you can add your own domain too, free on every plan. Your cloudzyro.app address keeps working alongside it. Only the workspace’s owners and admins can add or change domains.

Add a domain

1. In the console, open Sites & Apps, choose your site and open its Domains tab.

2. Under Add a domain, type the address visitors will use, such as www.example.com, and click Add domain.

3. The domain shows Waiting for DNS with the record to add. At your DNS provider (often where you bought the domain), add:

   Type	Name	Target
   CNAME	www (or your subdomain)	domains.cloudzyro.app

   Some providers want the full name, such as www.example.com, instead of www. When we can tell who runs your DNS, we link to their instructions.

4. Wait. It usually works in 5 to 15 minutes, though DNS changes can take a few hours with some providers. The page checks by itself, or click Check again.

5. The domain moves to Getting the certificate, then Live.

If something’s wrong, the domain card says what we found and what to change. We also email you when a domain goes live or stops working.

Caution

If your DNS is at Cloudflare, set the record to DNS only (the grey cloud), not Proxied.

Certificates

We get an HTTPS certificate for your domain automatically and renew it for you. There’s nothing to buy or install.

If your domain has CAA records, they must allow letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and ssl.com, or we can’t get a certificate. Add CAA records for them, or remove the CAA record.

www and the bare domain

The bare domain is the name without www, such as example.com. There are two ways to make it work.

Forward the bare domain to www

Add www.example.com to your site as above. Then, at your DNS provider, add an A record for the bare domain:

Type	Name	Value
A	@	173.234.137.167

Visitors who type example.com are then sent to https://www.example.com over HTTPS, keeping the rest of the address. This works with any DNS provider.

Use the bare domain itself

You can also add example.com to the site directly. That needs a CNAME, ALIAS, ANAME or flattened record on the bare domain, pointing to domains.cloudzyro.app. This works if your DNS is at Cloudflare, Namecheap, Porkbun, Squarespace Domains, DNSimple, DNS Made Easy, easyDNS, Gandi or DreamHost.

Elsewhere, try it. If your provider can’t point a bare domain at another service, the domain card tells you, with two ways forward: use www.example.com instead, or move your DNS to a provider that can, such as Cloudflare, which is free. Our guide How to move your DNS to Cloudflare walks you through it.

Moving a site that’s already live

If your domain already points to a live site somewhere else, open Moving a site that’s already live at this domain? on the domain card. Add the TXT records it shows first, wait until the card says Getting the certificate, then change the CNAME. Visitors won’t see a gap.

Choose the main address

Once a domain is Live, click Make this the main address to make it the address the console shows and links to. To go back, click Use the cloudzyro.app address as main.

How many domains

Plan	Domains per site
Launch	5
Boost	20

Remove a domain

Click Remove on the domain card, then Remove domain. Visitors using it stop reaching your site straight away, and your cloudzyro.app address keeps working. Remove the record at your DNS provider too.

Domains bought with Cloudzyro

If you bought or transferred the domain in Domains, you don’t need to add any records. Open the domain in Domains, and under What it’s for choose A Cloudzyro site, pick the site and click Use this site. We point both www.example.com and example.com at it, and the bare domain forwards to www over HTTPS. When you buy a new domain, answer What’s it for? with A Cloudzyro site and choose the site: we point it at the site once it’s registered, and it usually goes live within a few minutes after that.

Still stuck? Email support@cloudzyro.com and we’ll walk you through it.