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.
- Open the garden's settings and enter the domain.
- sizuq shows you the DNS record to add. Add it at whoever manages your domain.
- Come back and check the status. Verification is not instant — DNS changes take their own time.
- Once it verifies, a certificate is issued automatically.
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 it | What you add | |
|---|---|---|
| A subdomain | Recommended. You are pointing something like www at sizuq. | A CNAME to sizuq's connection host |
| The bare domain | You want the domain itself, and your provider supports ALIAS, ANAME or CNAME flattening | That provider's flattened record, to the same host |
| The bare domain, anywhere | Your provider offers none of the above | A 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
Two separate things have to be true: your domain has to point at sizuq, and sizuq has to know which of your gardens that domain means. The status shows both, because it is possible to have the first without the second.
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.