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Connect your own domain

Serving your community from a domain you own: the exact DNS records, how long it takes, and what happens to your Drry address.

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Instead of you.drry.com, your community can live at community.yoursite.com or at a domain you own outright.

This needs the Creator plan or higher, and only the community owner can do it. Even an admin on a paid plan is refused, because a domain is closer to owning the business than to running the community.

It is in Settings, in the card called Use your own domain.

  1. Type your domain and press Add

    Use the exact address you want, for example community.yoursite.com.

  2. Add the DNS records at your registrar

    Drry shows you exactly what to add, with a copy button on each value. Which one you need depends on the shape of your domain.

    For a subdomain like community.yoursite.com, add a CNAME record with the name community pointing at cname.drry.com.

    For a root domain like yoursite.com, add an A record with the name @ pointing at 76.76.21.21.

    You add these where you bought the domain: GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Google Domains. Not in Drry.

  3. Wait

    The card checks every fifteen seconds by itself, and there is a Check status button if you are impatient.

    DNS changes can take up to an hour to spread, sometimes longer. There is nothing to do during that time.

  4. Wait for Verified

    The badge turns green and reads Verified, and you get an email confirming your community is live on the new domain.

    The certificate that gives you the padlock is set up automatically. There is nothing to buy or configure.

Common questions

Can I use both www and the root domain?

One domain per community, and Drry does not set up a redirect between www and the root. If you want both to work, add a redirect at your registrar.

How do I change to a different domain?

Remove the current one and add the new one. There is no edit. Removing does not touch the records at your registrar, so tidy those up yourself.

What happens if I downgrade to free?

Your custom domain starts redirecting to your Drry address within about a minute, and your community keeps working there. Nothing is deleted, and upgrading restores it with no DNS work.

Can I point a domain at a single funnel page?

No. The domain serves your whole community, and your home page decides what a visitor lands on.

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