Let's say you own example.com and would like to use it for your site. First, decide whether you would like:
Go to your domain's DNS page. This is usually where you bought the
domain. Create a CNAME
record for the subdomain you'd
like to use and set its value to blot.im
.
Tell Blot your full domain including the subdomain, e.g. www.example.com, on the dashboard.
Go to your domain's DNS page. This is usually where you bought the
domain. Create an ALIAS
record which points to
blot.im
.
Tell Blot your domain, e.g. example.com, on the dashboard.
If you cannot create an ALIAS
record, I recommend you use the
www
subdomain, then set up a redirect from the apex domain to the
subdomain. A number of DNS providers offer ALIAS
records,
including
Route 53 and
DNSimple.
Cloudflare offers
CNAME Flattening, which are ALIAS records by another name.
Type | Host | Value |
---|---|---|
CNAME | www | blot.im |
ALIAS | @ | blot.im |
A | @ | 54.191.179.131 |
Please don’t hesitate to contact support. Here are some checks I make when diagnosing DNS issues:
www
) and value (e.g. blot.im
)
fields in the DNS record reversed?