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Custom Domain

The Domain tab is where you put TinyPages under your own brand. There are two things you can connect, together or on their own:

  • Your website, so visitors see yourname.com instead of the default TinyPages address.
  • Your emails, so your newsletters and automated emails are sent from your own address, like contact@yourname.com. Sending from your own domain reassures your audience and helps your emails land in the inbox.

You can connect both on the same domain, use a domain only for your emails, or even use two different domains. For example, your site on yourname.com and your emails from news.yourname.com.

Pro feature

Connecting your own domain is part of the Pro plan. On the free plan, clicking Add your custom domain prompts you to upgrade. If your Pro plan ends, the domain is removed from your account: your site goes back to your TinyPages address, and your emails are sent from a TinyPages address again. Changing your free TinyPages address, below, works on every plan.

Change your free TinyPages address​

Your free TinyPages address can be changed on every plan. When you signed up, your site was placed at yourname.tinypages.co, and the yourname part is yours to rename whenever you like.

Your old address stops working

Your old address stops working right away, and visitors who use it are not sent on to the new one. Remember to update the links you've already shared (your bio, your emails, your ads). The address your emails come from changes too: until you connect your own email domain, they're sent from yourname@send.tinypages.co, which follows your new name.

  1. Go to Settings → Domain.
  2. In the Your site address field, type the new name you want before .tinypages.co.
  3. Click Save changes and confirm the change.

Pick something short and easy to say out loud, since it becomes part of every link you share. If someone else is already using that name, TinyPages tells you so you can choose another. The change takes seconds and keeps all your pages, contacts, and settings on the same account.

The Your site address field only shows while no custom domain is added. Once you add one, the tab shows your domain settings instead.

Choose what to connect​

When you add a domain, you pick what it is for:

  • My site and my emails. Your website and your emails both run on this domain.
  • My emails only. You send your emails from this domain, and your site stays on your TinyPages address.

If you start with emails only, you can connect your site later at any time with Connect my site. Each part is set up and managed on its own: you can also remove the domain from your site or from your emails without touching the other.

Add your DNS records​

  1. Go to Settings → Domain and click Add your custom domain.
  2. Enter your domain name and choose what you want to connect.
  3. TinyPages shows you the DNS records to add (a few technical lines that tell the internet where to find your site and who may send emails in your name). Your website and your emails each have their own records.
  4. Log in to your domain provider, the company where you bought your domain (such as OVH, GoDaddy, Namecheap, or Gandi), and add the records exactly as shown.
  5. Back in TinyPages, click Verify.

Your website and your emails are verified separately, so one can go online while the other is still being checked.

Choose the address you send from​

Once your email domain is verified, you decide which address your emails come from, for example contact@yourname.com or hello@yourname.com. Type the part before the @ in the Send emails from field.

A new address has no history yet with inbox providers like Gmail, so your first sends are treated a little differently. Landing in the inbox explains what to expect in the first days and how TinyPages protects your sender reputation (the trust inbox providers give your emails).

How long does it take?​

DNS changes can take from a few minutes to a few hours, sometimes up to 48 hours, to spread across the internet, depending on your domain provider and your previous settings. If it has been more than a few hours and a domain still is not verified, double-check the records you entered. If TinyPages lists records to delete, such as a second DMARC record (an email security line that must exist only once), remove them at your domain provider: verification can't succeed while they're there.

Tip

If you are not sure how to update DNS records, search for your domain provider's name plus "how to update DNS records". Most providers have a step-by-step guide.

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