Squarespace Custom Domain

Updated 6 months ago by Beacons Technical Support

Custom domain

A custom domain is something like mywebsite.com. If you are trying to do something like links.mywebsite.com, you are trying to do a subdomain, which is covered in the section below.

1. Go to this article and follow the instructions to "Open Advanced DNS Settings" under A records. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002101888
2. Scroll down to Custom Records
3. In the Record field of a blank row, select A from the drop-down
   1. In the Host field, enter @
   2. Leave the Priority field blank
   3. In the Data field, enter 213.188.192.2
   4. Click "Add" to save the record to your settings
4. In the Record field of another blank row, select AAAA from the drop-down
   1. In the Host field, enter @
   2. Leave the Priority field blank
   3. In the Data field, enter 2a09:8280:1:9032:60eb:1797:5542:d0db
   4. Click "Add" to save the record to your settings

Custom subdomain

A custom subdomain is something like links.mywebsite.com. If you are trying to do something like mywebsite.com, you are trying to do a domain, which is covered in the section above.

1. Go to this article and follow the instructions to "Open Advanced DNS Settings" under CNAME records https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002101888
2. Scroll down to Custom Records
3. In the Record field of a blank row, select CNAME from the drop-down
   1. In the Host field, enter your your subdomain. If you want links.mywebsite.com, enter links. If you want bio.mywebsite.com enter bio
   2. Leave the Priority field blank
   3. In the Data field, enter beacons.fly.dev
   4. Click "Add" to save the record to your settings

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