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Custom domains

Pointing your own domain at a platform, and the TXT record that proves it is yours.

A platform answers at its own Alodai address out of the box. You can put your own domain in front of it.

The sequence

  1. Add the domain to the platform. You get back a verification value to publish.
  2. Publish it as a TXT record on your domain's DNS.
  3. Ask for verification. The platform performs a DNS TXT lookup and compares what it finds with what it issued.

Until that lookup matches, the domain is not served. There is no way to skip step 3 — a domain that has not answered for itself in DNS is a domain someone else might own.

The record can be placed on the domain you added or at the root; both are checked. DNS changes take as long as your provider takes to publish them, so a verification that fails immediately after you add the record is usually just early — try again once the record is visible to a public resolver.

Adding, verifying, reading and removing a custom domain are four operations in the core reference, and all four require an operator session.

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