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Guide

Your own domain

Putting a garden on a domain you own — the DNS record to add, how to pick which one, and what changes once it works.

Attaching one

A garden can answer at a domain you own instead of, or as well as, its sizuq address. Attaching one does not use up a garden slot — it is an extra address for a garden you already have.

  1. Open the garden's settings and enter the domain.
  2. sizuq shows you the DNS record to add. Add it at whoever manages your domain.
  3. Come back and press Check status. sizuq checks project ownership, DNS readiness for certificate issuance, and routing separately; DNS changes take their own time.
  4. The address is marked Connected only when all of those checks are ready.
Domains by plan

Which record to add

There are three ways, and which one is available to you depends on your domain and your DNS provider. sizuq shows the exact values; this is how to choose between them.

When to use itWhat you add
A subdomainRecommended. You are pointing something like www at sizuq.A CNAME to sizuq's connection host
The bare domainYou want the domain itself, and your provider supports ALIAS, ANAME or CNAME flatteningThat provider's flattened record, to the same host
The bare domain, anywhereYour provider offers none of the aboveA plain A record to a fixed address

The first two are preferable because they follow sizuq's connection host: if the underlying address ever changes, nothing on your side needs touching. A plain A record is a fixed number, and would need updating by hand.

If you take the subdomain route, remember to send the bare domain somewhere too, usually by redirecting it to the subdomain at your DNS or hosting layer. Otherwise someone typing the domain without the www gets nothing.

When it verifies but does not serve

Several separate things have to be true: the domain must be authorized for the sizuq project, its DNS must point at Vercel so a certificate can be issued, and sizuq must know which garden the domain means. Check status tests each condition; a merely valid-looking or nonexistent hostname cannot become Connected.

If the status reports that verification succeeded but routing has not been published, the symptom is unhelpful — the domain answers with sizuq's own front page rather than your garden. Pressing Check status again republishes the mapping and usually resolves it.

Which address is the real one

Both addresses keep working. Which one is the canonical address — the one search engines index and the one links prefer — is yours to decide with a single setting.

  • Leave it off, and the sizuq address stays canonical while your domain also answers.
  • Turn it on, and your domain becomes canonical: the sizuq address redirects to it, and the sitemap and links follow.
Why that is, in full