Steer

Your own domain, on your Steer page

Pro pages can live at talk.yourname.com or yourname.com as well as yourname.steer.social. One DNS record, a few minutes, and the studio tells you when it's live.

  1. Type the address in the studio. Studio → your page → Publish step → Your own domain → type it → Connect. The studio then shows the exact record for that address.
  2. Add one record where you bought the domain (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Squarespace, Hostinger…).

    A subdomain — talk.yourname.com (easiest)

    typename / hostvalue / points to
    CNAMEtalkdomains.steer.social

    The root — yourname.com

    typename / hostvalue / points to
    A@66.241.125.55
    AAAA@2a09:8280:1::161:a771:0

    If your provider offers ALIAS, ANAME or CNAME flattening for the root, you can point @ at domains.steer.social instead.

    Delete any other A, AAAA or CNAME record for the same name — a parking page or website builder your registrar added. On Cloudflare, set the record to DNS only (grey cloud), not proxied.
  3. Wait — the studio checks for you. Every 20 seconds it asks two public DNS services (Cloudflare's and Google's) what they see, then issues your https certificate and loads your page to confirm it answers. DNS changes usually show within 5–30 minutes; some providers take a few hours. When all four checks are green, step 3 says Live with the link.

Where to add the record

providerwhere
GoDaddyMy Products → your domain → DNS → Add New Record
NamecheapDomain List → Manage → Advanced DNS → Add New Record
Cloudflareyour site → DNS → Records → Add record (Proxy status: DNS only)
Squarespace / Google DomainsDomains → your domain → DNS → Custom records
HostingerDomains → your domain → DNS / Nameservers → Add record

Check it yourself

Open dnschecker.org, type your address, choose CNAME (subdomain) or A (root). Green ticks around the world showing domains.steer.social or 66.241.125.55 mean it has spread. From a terminal: dig +short talk.yourname.com.

Trouble?

The studio names the problem when it can: not found yet (still spreading, or a typo in the name), points elsewhere (an older record is still there, or Cloudflare's proxy is on), or being issued (the certificate follows DNS by a few minutes). Still stuck after a few hours? Write to support@steer.social with the address and we'll look.