GUIDE

Your own web address, without the DNS panic

You bought yourthing.com and your app lives at some platform address. Connecting the two is genuinely simple (two copy-paste steps) wrapped in terminology that makes it feel like surgery.

What's actually happening

The internet keeps a big phone book. Connecting a domain means adding two entries to it: one saying "yourthing.com lives at this host" and one proving to the host that you own the name. That's it. The entries are called records, the phone book is called DNS, and neither name matters.

The universal procedure

Your host (wherever your app is published) shows you the two entries to add; each is a type, a name, and a value, all copy-pasteable.
You add them at your registrar: the place you bought the domain (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google, Cloudflare). Look for "DNS settings" or "manage records" on the domain.
You wait. The phone book updates worldwide on its own schedule: usually minutes, occasionally hours. Nothing is wrong during the wait, and re-doing the steps doesn't speed it up.

The three classic failures

The proxy toggle. Cloudflare users: the little orange cloud next to your new record often breaks the host's ownership check. Turn it gray until everything works, then decide.
Right value, wrong name. Adding the record for yourthing.com when the instructions said www.yourthing.com, or vice versa. Match the name column exactly.
Old records in the way. A parked domain often comes with pre-installed records pointing at the registrar's ad page. Remove conflicting ones of the same type and name.

When it still doesn't work

I'm connecting my domain to my app's host. The host told me to add these records: [paste them]. My registrar is [name]. Here's a screenshot of my current DNS settings: [attach]. Tell me exactly what's wrong or missing, in plain steps for that registrar's interface.

On Plyo this whole page is a guided flow: enter your domain, get the two records with registrar-specific screenshots, and watch a live "waiting for your registrar" status until it connects. The certificate (the padlock) is automatic in either world; if a host asks you to handle certificates yourself, that's a sign you're on a tool built for engineers.

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