Connect your own domain

Point a domain you own at your Blogaly site from your dashboard. HTTPS is set up for you.

Who can do this: The account owner, in the dashboard. Works on every plan once your site is live.

Your site starts at your-name.blogaly.uk. You can also serve it from a domain you own, such as example.com or news.example.com. You add two DNS records where you bought the domain, we check them, and your site starts answering at your domain with HTTPS on. Certificates renew on their own.

You’ll need to be able to log in to your DNS provider: usually the company you bought the domain from, or a service like Cloudflare if you moved it there.

1. Add the domain in your dashboard

Log in at dash.blogaly.com.
Next to your site, select Custom domain.
Type the domain you want to use, for example news.example.com or example.com, and select Continue.

The Custom domain page for northern-ledger.blogaly.uk with a field for the domain and a Continue button.

2. Add the DNS records

The dashboard now shows the records to add. Keep this page open and add them at your DNS provider. Copy the values from your dashboard: they are unique to your site, and the ones in the picture below are examples.

The DNS records for news.northernledger.example: a TXT record to prove ownership, a CNAME record pointing at northern-ledger.blogaly.uk, and two alternative A records. — Example values. Yours will differ.

Record	What it does	When to add it
TXT `_blogaly-verify…`	Proves the domain is yours	Always
CNAME → `your-name.blogaly.uk`	Sends visitors to your site	For a subdomain, like `news.example.com`
A records	Same, for domains that can’t use a CNAME	For a main domain, like `example.com`

Then remove any other A, AAAA or CNAME records for the same name. Old records pointing elsewhere are the most common reason a domain won’t connect.

3. Let us check

Select I’ve added them — check now. New records can take a few minutes to show up, sometimes an hour. If they aren’t visible yet, you don’t need to keep checking: we look every 10 minutes for 7 days and carry on as soon as they appear.

Once the records are found, the page moves through these steps:

Status	What it means
Waiting for your DNS records	We haven’t seen the records yet.
DNS checked. Connecting your domain…	Records found. Setting the domain up.
Connecting your domain and getting its HTTPS certificate…	Almost there. Usually a minute or two.
Connected	Done. Your site answers at your domain.
Expired	The records weren’t found within 7 days. Add the domain again to get a fresh set.

The Custom domain page showing news.northernledger.example as Connected, with a link to the site and a Remove this domain button. — Connected. The site now answers at the new domain over HTTPS.

Good to know

For now, your site keeps your-name.blogaly.uk as its main address. Your domain shows the same site, but links your site creates itself (in newsletters, your RSS feed and the address search engines are told to use) still point to your-name.blogaly.uk, and visitors to that address aren’t redirected to your domain. Both addresses keep working.
Each site uses one custom domain at a time. To switch, remove the current one first. Remove this domain takes effect straight away, without asking you to confirm.
Your site needs to be live. You won’t see Custom domain while it’s being created or while it’s paused.
If we say the domain is already connected to another Blogaly site and it’s yours, contact us.
Stuck? See My domain isn’t connecting.

Last checked against the product on 7 November 2026.

My domain isn’t connectingWhat each message on the Custom domain page means, and what to change at your DNS provider to fix it.Change or remove your domainDisconnect your custom domain, or swap it for another one. Your blogaly.uk address keeps working throughout.Your name.blogaly.uk addressEvery site gets a free address at name.blogaly.uk. How names work, which ones you can’t use, and what happens when you add your own domain.

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