Use your own domain

An address of your own

You can connect a domain you already own. Drate doesn’t sell domains, so buy one from a domain company first if you need one.

Open Website settings in your dashboard and choose Connect a domain. Only the site’s owner can connect one. Your Drate address keeps working, whatever you add.

Connecting your domain

Drate shows the DNS records to add for your domain. Add them with the company that manages its DNS, which may be different from the company you bought it from, then choose Verify records. Once ownership is verified, add any records still missing and choose Check connection.

Your domain shows your site once ownership and HTTPS are both verified. The certificate can take a few minutes, and DNS changes can take time to become visible across different networks.

Only the name you enter is connected: www.example.com is a different name from example.com. For a domain itself, like example.com, your DNS provider needs CNAME flattening or an ALIAS or ANAME record.

Keep your existing email records in place, and keep the verification records after you’ve connected: they keep the connection and its certificate valid.

If the connection is not working

Check the spelling of the domain and compare its records with the values shown in Drate. If you need help, send support your domain and a screenshot of the relevant DNS records. Do not send your domain account password or API keys.