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Attach your own domain to your site

The simplest way is to hand the domain to us entirely: set our nameservers at your registrar. We take care of the rest — the zone, the DNSSEC signature and the certificate.

How it is done

Nothing else needs to be entered — no addresses, no records. We create the zone ourselves, sign it with DNSSEC and issue the certificate.

  1. Go to your registrar, to the nameservers section (also called NS or DNS servers).
  2. Replace the existing servers with ours: ns1.alpost.ch and ns2.alpost.ch.
  3. Save. The registrar passes the change to the registry; this usually takes from half an hour to a day.
  4. Open your account, go to Hosting, enter the domain in the attach field and press the button.

If the domain must stay on your own DNS

This happens when the domain already carries mail or other services elsewhere and cannot be handed over whole.

  1. At your DNS provider create an A record for the domain with the value 5.39.3.123.
  2. Create the same record for www if you want the site to open with that prefix too.
  3. Wait for the change to spread, then attach the domain in your account.

About the certificate

The HTTPS certificate is issued automatically and renews itself. Nothing is required from you.

If the records have not spread across the internet yet, issuing is postponed and retried later — nothing needs reconfiguring.

About mail on your own domain

Mailboxes are currently issued only on our domains. Attaching a domain concerns the website, not mail: if you hand us a domain that carried mail, that mail will stop working — make sure this suits you beforehand.

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