Custom Domain

=How To Enable your Custom Domain= First of all you must be a premium subscriber, you can enable premium services in the Billing section of your admin page. You must also have a domain name to use - you can register and purchase a domain name from many different domain registrars, we'll leave that part up to you. To use this service you need only the domain name, you do not need a full hosting package.

Sub domain Instructions - http://www.example.com or http://status.example.com
Setting up a subdomain is the easiest way to use a custom domain name with your Status.net cloud site. You will have to go to the DNS settings page of your registrar. This will be different depending on who your registrar is, if you have trouble finding this page consult your registrar.
 * Create a new CNAME record for your site's address - this would be a subdomain of the form www.example.com or site.example.com where example.com is the domain name that you own.
 * Point your new CNAME record to your status.net site to associate www.example.com with yoursite.status.net
 * On the Admin section of your status.net site click Domain and enter your new www.example.com or status.example.com domain into the Hostname field of that page and click save.
 * Once the DNS resolves your old yoursite.status.net should be your new www.example.com

Naked domain Instructions - http://example.com
To set up a naked domain like http://example.com - You need to create an  'A' NAME  Record pointing to the .status.net site ip.
 * Go to the DNS settings page of your registrar. This will be different depending on who your registrar is, if you have trouble finding this page consult your registrar.
 * Create a new  'A' NAME  Record for the domain you own - example.com pointing to this ip number 174.142.114.103
 * On the Admin section of your status.net site click Domain and enter your example.com domain into the Hostname field of that page and click save.
 * Once the DNS resolves your old yoursite.status.net should be your new example.com

Some Notes

 * You can not use a custom domain to put your status.net site into a subfolder on your domain http://example.com/statusnet will not work!
 * Depending on your registrar and the TTL setting for you domain it may take some time for these changes to become available - just be patient - if after a day or two it is still not working, let us know, or contact your registrar to make sure that you have made the changes correctly.
 * The system will not allow you to change the domain setting until it appears to be correctly set up, but be aware that if your DNS settings change in the future you will not be able to access your site until it's fixed.