Point a subdomain at your page without moving your website

You can serve your page at an address like links.yourbrand.com while your main website stays at yourbrand.com. To do that you add two DNS records at your domain provider: an ownership record that proves the domain is yours, and a routing record that sends visitors to your page. Your website records and your email records are not touched.

Why a subdomain is the safer starting point

A subdomain such as links.yourbrand.com is a separate name from your main site. Adding it does not change what yourbrand.com serves, so your existing website and inbox keep working as they did. This is the setup the dashboard recommends when the text field shows the placeholder links.yourbrand.com.

Pointing the bare domain itself at your page is possible, but it replaces whatever that address serves today, and it requires that the name has no AAAA record. If your main site lives on the bare domain, use a subdomain instead.

The two records your dashboard shows

Open your dashboard's domain settings and add your address. The service then shows the exact records for that name. There are two.

• Ownership TXT record. The name is _shaynorbit.your-address and the value begins with shaynorbit= followed by a one-time token. This proves you control the domain. Keep it in place after verification; do not delete it.
• Routing record. For a subdomain this is a CNAME whose name is your address and whose value is the target shown in your dashboard. That target sends visitors to your page.

If the routing target has not been published yet, the dashboard will show only the TXT record and tell you to add it now and check back. Add the ownership record first; the routing value appears when hosting is ready.

Add the records step by step

1. In your dashboard, open the domain settings page and enter your subdomain, for example links.yourbrand.com. Up to three addresses are included; you buy the domain itself from your registrar.
2. Copy the TXT record exactly as shown. The name is a full hostname, and some registrars append your root domain automatically, so check the preview before saving.
3. Add the routing record shown for that address. Use the CNAME for a subdomain. Do not add both a CNAME and an A record on the same name.
4. Leave your existing website and email records where they are.
5. Publish your page. A connected address serves your published page, so a draft will not appear on the branded domain.
6. Return to the domain settings and choose Check DNS. When the records are in place, ownership and routing are confirmed and HTTPS is issued. Allow time for DNS changes to propagate.

If the check does not pass the first time

• A message that the ownership TXT record is missing or has not propagated means the value does not match. Recheck the exact name _shaynorbit.your-address, the token, and that you saved it as a TXT record.
• A message telling you to add the routing record means ownership is confirmed but the CNAME does not yet point at the target shown in your dashboard.
• Checking is rate-limited, so wait about a minute between attempts.
• If you are using the bare domain rather than a subdomain, it must have no AAAA record. This is another reason a subdomain is easier.

Limits worth knowing before you start

Free connection does not mean free domain registration. You pay your registrar for the name and its renewal; connecting it does not add a connection fee here. Each profile supports up to three addresses, and a name already connected to another account cannot be reused. Custom-domain serving can also be switched off on a given server; you can still add your domain and prove ownership, and it begins serving once hosting is enabled. Verification always depends on DNS propagation and HTTPS provisioning, so it is not instant.

Next step

Create your free page, then connect your address from the dashboard when you are ready. To understand what a connected domain changes for a visitor, read our guide to free custom-domain connection, and run the pre-share page checklist before you point a QR code or a social bio at it.