Point a Google domain to your EarlyBird landing page

Point a Google domain to your EarlyBird landing page

Google Domains is a domain registration and DNS hosting service offered by Google which was publicly launched on 13 January 2015. The best part about using Google Domains as your registrar is the ease of putting out paid ads. If you’re planning to use the Google Ad platform to market your products, Google Domains makes it very easy to set up. Google also offers built-in email forwarding and 24/7 customer support.

The entire setup will take no more than 10 minutes, and here's your step-by-step guide:

Prerequisites

  • You own the domain name you'll be connecting to;
  • You need to be on the Superior Plan or higher to be able to add a custom domain.

Adding a custom domain

Go to the dashboard, and pick the landing page to which you wish to add a custom domain:

Once you have selected the landing page, go to Landing page settings from the sidebar, and find the Public site URL tab under General card:

If you're subscribed to the Superior Plan or higher, you should be able to access the following section. Here, you can enter the domain name you'd like to add to your landing page.

Click on Add Custom URL to reveal the input fields and instructions from EarlyBird.

Configuring the domain

Once the domain has been added, you'll see an instruction on how to configure the domain. Refer to the instructions and add a CNAME record to the www subdomain or your root domain, depending on your preference.

First, make sure you have the CNAME record value provided by EarlyBird. This will typically be in the form of "yourdomain.com" pointing to ".earlybird.rocks."

Now, let’s log in to your Google Domains account:

  1. Open the domain manager: https://domains.google.com/registrar/
  2. Click on the domain name you want to connect to your EarlyBird landing page.
  3. Find the DNS field from the left sidebar, and head to Default Name Servers.

You'll now be looking at a few default DNS records set by Google Domains at the time of domain name purchase. You don't have to worry about them and they are safe to delete.

Now it's time to inform the DNS servers, "When someone enters my domain name into their browser, please send them to my EarlyBird landing page.”

This is achieved by using a CNAME record. A Canonical Name (CNAME) record maps an alias name to its true or canonical domain name. To complete this task, create a new CNAME record with the following parameters:

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Type: CNAME
Host: @
Points to: <name>.earlybird.rocks (this might be different for you)
TTL: 1 hour (this basically tells how long it will take for your changes to go into effect from the next change onwards, you can leave it to the default value)

TTL: 1 hour (this basically tells how long it will take for your changes to go into effect from the next change onwards, you can leave it to the default value)

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Want to connect the root domain to your landing page? Check out What is CNAME Flattening and what to do if my domain provider doesn't support it

Save the records then add your domain to the Custom URL field:

Once the domain is configured, you will see something like this:

Congratulations, you are all set!