Creating personal domains

How to add a custom domain on Lnk8

At Lnk8, you have the option to connect your custom domain, allowing you to establish a distinctive brand identity for your shortened links. You can initiate this process by clicking the 'Connect a Domain' button directly from the 'Dashboard' or by navigating to 'Features' in the menu bar to access this feature.

Note that we automatically provide SSL certificates for the connected domains.

To connect your custom domain -

1. Log in to Lnk8.co
2. Navigate to Features and click on ‘Connect a domain’ which will take you to “https://lnk8.co/domains”
3. Click on the New Domain button

4. Enter the domain name you want to connect, make sure you are entering a domain name that you own, and have access to edit DNS records.

5. Next, you will be asked if you want all the traffic for that domain to be routed to our servers.

This means that, once you are finished setting up the custom domain, say “example.com” any future requests to “example.com” or “example.com/***” will reach the Lnk8 servers. If you previously had any website being served on the domain, it will be replaced.

6. You can either confirm, or if you want to keep the existing website, you can go back and change to a different domain - “example-two.com” or to a subdomain, “short.example.com”

7. Once you confirm, you will be provided with the record details to be added to your domain registrar settings (GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc.)

8. You will receive an email from us after your domain is verified within 48 hours.

9. You can also come back to this page and check the status. You can start adding shortened links once you get both the green ticks - Active and Verified.