Put your paper on your own domain

Out of the box your paper is read at your-desk.newsroomfloor.com. To read it at your own address you type the address into your desk, add one record at your registrar, and it serves; the certificate is ours to handle. Your built-in address keeps working either way, so no link ever breaks.

First, in your desk

Open Your own domain on the Admin tab and type the address under Your own address. The page decides which of the two lanes DNS allows, asks the edge for the address, and prints the one record with its real values. It then re-reads the domain each time it renders, and the floor re-reads every pending domain every five minutes on its own, so it goes live whether or not you come back.

A subdomain: one CNAME, at any registrar

For news.example.org when example.org stays wherever it is today.

1. At your DNS provider, add one CNAME from the subdomain to drm3-domain-proxy.fly.dev.
2. That is the whole step. Within a few minutes the page reads serving; the certificate is issued and renewed on our side.
3. Set the primary address to the subdomain.

A whole domain on its own

For example.org itself, with nothing in front of it. It is as simple as a subdomain. You keep your own DNS zone and your own email, and you change one record and nothing else.

1. At your DNS provider, add one A record on the domain to 168.220.82.194. For IPv6, add one AAAA record to 2a09:8280:1::19b:e7ac:0.
2. That is the whole step. Within a few minutes the page reads serving; the certificate is issued and renewed on our side.
3. Set the primary address to the domain.

The primary address

When a paper is read at more than one address, the primary address is the one search engines treat as the original. It is not set by default, so each address is its own canonical. Once your domain serves, set it under Desk settings, General, Primary domain, so the paper does not split its ranking between two addresses.

Good to know

• A domain we already serve for you keeps serving exactly as it does today. Nothing here changes an address that is already live.
• Up to five domains per paper. A domain can belong to one paper on the floor at a time.
• Your built-in your-desk.newsroomfloor.com address keeps working. If you later ask us to redirect it to your domain, it forwards for good, because receipts, links, and share cards already point at it.
• A domain of your own is part of the Publisher plan and above.

Questions go to support@drm3.io.