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Custom Domain

The Custom 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 www.yourname.com instead of the default TinyPages address.
  • Your emails, so your broadcasts 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.

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, and the other way around. Each part is set up and managed on its own.

Add your DNS records​

  1. Go to Settings → Custom domain.
  2. Enter your domain name and choose what you want to connect.
  3. TinyPages shows you the DNS records to add with your domain registrar, the company where you bought your domain (such as OVH, GoDaddy, Namecheap, or Gandi). Your website and your emails each have their own records.
  4. Log in to your registrar 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 live 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.

How long does it take?​

DNS changes can take anywhere from a few minutes to 48 hours to spread across the internet, depending on your registrar 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.

tip

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