Custom domains

Every site works at yourname.frameroost.photos. On any paid plan you can also put it on a domain you own. You’ll need to be a site owner, and to be able to edit your domain’s DNS records (usually at the company you bought the domain from).

Connecting your www address

1. In your admin, open Domain and enter the address you want — the www one, like www.yourname.com (or another subdomain, like photos.yourname.com). Click Connect domain.

2. At your DNS provider, add the record the page shows:

   Type	Name	Value / target
   CNAME	www	customers.frameroost.photos

3. Wait. It usually starts working within minutes of the record appearing, sometimes up to a day. The Domain page checks on its own; Check now asks straight away.

When it’s ready the domain shows Working, and it gets a secure (https) certificate automatically. There’s nothing to buy or renew.

Your main address

Your site’s first working domain becomes its main address: the one used in links, private gallery links and share previews. You can connect up to three domains and choose which one is main, or switch back to your frameroost.photos address.

Your admin always stays on yourname.frameroost.photos. Going to /admin or /login on your own domain takes you there.

Making yourname.com work too (without the www)

The record above covers www.yourname.com only. Someone who types just yourname.com gets an error until it’s set to redirect to https://www.yourname.com. It can’t point at FrameRoost directly, because most DNS providers don’t allow that kind of record on a bare domain, so the redirect is set up wherever your domain’s DNS lives. The Domain page walks through this too.

Option 1: your DNS provider’s forwarding (easiest)

Many registrars and DNS providers (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun, Squarespace and others) have a setting called “URL forwarding”, “domain forwarding” or “redirect”. Forward yourname.com to https://www.yourname.com, choose a permanent (301) redirect, and turn on “forward path” if it’s offered.

Option 2: a free Cloudflare account

Some providers (Microsoft 365 and many web hosts) don’t offer forwarding. A free Cloudflare account can run your domain’s DNS and do the redirect, including https:

1. Sign up at cloudflare.com, add your domain on the Free plan, and let it import your existing records.
2. Compare its list against your current provider’s. Make sure every MX and TXT record came over — they carry your email.
3. Check the www CNAME to customers.frameroost.photos is there, and set it to DNS only (grey cloud).
4. Add a record: type AAAA, name @, address 100::, Proxied (orange cloud). It’s a placeholder; the redirect answers before anything goes there.
5. Under Rules, create a Redirect Rule using a wildcard pattern:
   • Request URL: http*://yourname.com/*
   • Target URL: https://www.yourname.com/${2}
   • Status code 301, with Preserve query string turned on.
6. At the company where you bought the domain, change its nameservers to the two Cloudflare gives you.

Nameserver changes take from a few minutes to a day or two to reach everyone. Your site keeps working at www.yourname.com the whole time.

Still seeing an error?

Your computer or browser may still remember the old answer. Try another device or network, or clear your browser’s cache. Browsers set to use Cloudflare’s “secure DNS” (1.1.1.1) sometimes hold on to the old answer longer than others.

If you move to Free

Custom domains are part of paid plans. If your site moves to Free, visitors to your domain are sent to your frameroost.photos address instead; move back to a paid plan and your domain works again.

Removing a domain

Remove disconnects it straight away: visitors using it stop reaching your site, which keeps working at its frameroost.photos address. You can then delete the DNS record.