Put your paper on your own domain
Out of the box your paper is read at your-desk.newsroomfloor.com. To read it at your own address you
type the address into your desk, add one record at your registrar, and it serves; the certificate is ours
to handle. Your built-in address keeps working either way, so no link ever breaks.
First, in your desk
Open Your own domain on the Admin tab and type the address under Your own address. The page
decides which of the two lanes DNS allows, asks the edge for the address, and prints the one record with
its real values. It then re-reads the domain each time it renders, and the floor re-reads every pending
domain every five minutes on its own, so it goes live whether or not you come back.
A subdomain: one CNAME, at any registrar
For news.example.org when example.org stays wherever it is today.
- At your DNS provider, add one CNAME from the subdomain to cname.newsroomfloor.com.
- That is the whole step. Within minutes the page reads serving; the certificate is issued and
renewed on our side. An optional second record the page offers lets the certificate renew for years with
no further record from you.
- Set the primary address to the subdomain.
An apex: a nameserver change, at any registrar
For example.org itself. An apex cannot be a CNAME at most providers, and the one thing every
registrar allows is changing the nameservers, so the zone is hosted with us.
- At the registrar that holds the domain, set its nameservers to the two names the page shows you.
- That is the whole step. Once the change reaches the registry, usually within the hour, the address and
its certificate follow on their own and the page reads serving.
- Set the primary address to the domain.
The primary address
When a paper is read at more than one address, the primary address is the one search engines treat as
the original. It is not set by default, so each address is its own canonical. Once your domain serves, set
it under Desk settings, General, Primary domain, so the paper does not split its ranking between two
addresses.
Good to know
- An apex domain (example.org with no subdomain) cannot be a CNAME at most providers, so it takes the
nameserver lane; the page picks it for you. A subdomain may take either lane.
- Up to five domains per paper. A domain can belong to one paper on the floor at a time.
- Your built-in your-desk.newsroomfloor.com address keeps working. If you later ask us to redirect it to your
domain, it forwards for good, because receipts, links, and share cards already point at it.
- A domain of your own is part of the Publisher plan and above.
Questions go to support@drm3.io.