Last reviewed by Netlify Support: July 2025 You sure can! This will be a three-step process but don’t worry, it’s not that hard. Go ahead and log in to your Netlify account, and add the name of the awesome domain you own to your site in Domain management → Production domains. Pull up the webs…

I got it working after realizing that the nameservers on GSuite were set to Microsoft 365. I added the A and CNAME at Microsoft and we’re up and running!

So, on your Netlify site page (not the account page), go to Site Settings and look for Domain management. [image] There, click on Add custom domain, and when prompted add your microsite.mainsite.com there. [image] If you see this, just press Add domain. Your current main site will not be affec…

I just randomly discovered that the load balancer’s IP address has been updated more than a year ago. I know the old one still works for now, but it would have been nice to be notified of this new recommendation outside of the forums so I could implement it faster in my DNS records. Thank you for yo…

Hi @SmashManiac :wave:t6:, welcome back to the forums. I hear your concern and I appreciate you voicing your feedback. I understand how frustrating this can be. I have passed this on to our team. We really appreciate it. (:

Thanks thinking of trying this for a Wix registered domain. But then will the subdomain I add also have https security? Or would I have to get that separately at Wix?

hi @lori Happy to help! You can use our SSL certificate on your site, is that what you’re asking? We have a great list of support guides on how to properly set up DNS: [image] [Support Guide] Compiled resources for production domains on Netlify and DNS settings -- start here! Supp…

Thanks for your help. I looked at many of the articles and Im still not sure.Now we want to point example.com to example.netlify.app. My understanding is to Go to domain, get to point of “awaiting dns” which only says put in name servers so click done even though thats not allowed? Then go to in…

That’s it if you want to still manage your own domain at WIX: CNAME record on www to example.netlify.app. A Rercord on @ to 75.2.60.5 or the apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com if your registrar supports DNS provider supports ALIAS, ANAME, or flattened CNAME records. Hope this helps

Hi guys. Please assist. I can’t add the cname for subdomain taxes.akillix.com . [I get this error from my hosting provider] I get that error from my hosting provider. Not sure what the issue is because I successfully connected another subdomain before. @laura @gualter

Hello, my site jjazzlab.com has been hosted by Netlify for several years (works great!), DNS and email is managed by OVHCloud. I’d like to change the domain to jjazzlab.org , which I recently bought via OVHCloud. I was about to add the A and CNAME record as instructed in this thread, but a note on O…

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hi @lori

Happy to help! You can use our SSL certificate on your site, is that what you’re asking? We have a great list of support guides on how to properly set up DNS:

Hope this helps!

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