Connect your own domain
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Connecting with GoDaddy

You need the record Puko showed you in Settings — a name and a target. Keep that tab open; you will paste both.

Where to go

My Products → Domain → DNS. Open GoDaddy

Steps

  1. Sign in and open My Products.
  2. Find your domain and press DNS.
  3. Press Add New Record and choose CNAME as the type.
  4. Put the record name in Name, and the target in Value.
  5. Leave TTL at 1 hour and press Save.

Watch out on GoDaddy. GoDaddy will not accept a CNAME at the root of your domain. Use a subdomain like www, or point the root with a Forwarding rule.

The host field

Enter only the part before your domain. Most panels add the domain for you, so pasting the full name creates a record like _abc.example.com.example.com — which never resolves and looks exactly like a record that has not propagated.

Then

Go back to Puko and press Check. If it is not found yet, wait a few minutes and press it again — the record has to spread before we can see it. Do not edit it in the meantime; that restarts the clock.

Once it verifies, everything else is automatic. You do not need to come back to GoDaddy.

If it will not verify

Use Domain Connect Helpin your site’s Settings. It sends us what your domain is actually doing right now, so nobody has to guess.