Custom domains, simplified: one CNAME and you're live
Connecting your own domain to your hosted forum is now a single CNAME record — SSL is automatic, server IPs are history, and domain changes are self-service from your panel.
Connecting your own domain to your hosted forum used to involve IP addresses, proxy settings, and a small leap of faith. As of this week, it's one DNS record.
One record, and you're live
Point a CNAME at linkrobins.cc — that's the whole job:
forum.example.com→ CNAME →linkrobins.ccwww.forum.example.com→ CNAME →linkrobins.cc
We take it from there: your SSL certificate is issued automatically within minutes, renews forever without anyone thinking about it, and the www variant redirects to your main address on its own. No server IPs to copy, no proxy toggles, nothing to revisit later.
Using your root domain (like example.com)? Most DNS providers support an ALIAS/ANAME record or CNAME flattening for exactly this — Cloudflare does it automatically.
On Cloudflare? One setting to know
If your DNS lives on Cloudflare, set both records to DNS only (the grey cloud, not the orange one). Cloudflare doesn't allow proxied CNAMEs between accounts — with the grey cloud, everything works, and your forum is still fully protected by Cloudflare through our network.
Why this is better than IP addresses
The old way tied your DNS to a specific server. The new way ties it to us — which means when we scale, upgrade, or move things behind the scenes, your DNS never changes and your forum never notices. It also means no server addresses sitting in your DNS records for the curious to find.
Change your domain whenever
Domain changes are self-service from your hosting panel: pick a new custom domain or a free yourname.linkrobins.cc subdomain, and the panel walks you through the one record to create — then shows you live status until it flips to active.
Already hosted with us?
Nothing breaks and nothing is required. Existing setups keep working exactly as they are — and whenever you'd like to switch to the simpler setup, the instructions are waiting in your forum's changelog. There's no deadline.
Questions about your specific domain setup? Reach out through your panel — we're happy to help with the one record.