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Use your own domain for a series

Serve your series standings and season site on your own domain, by adding two DNS records and checking them.

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A series can serve its season site and standings on its own domain, such as results.example-series.org, as well as the platform address. The platform address keeps working. Custom domains are for series organisations only: you need "Seasons" in your sidebar. Club organisations use the public pages under their platform address.

You need access to your domain's DNS settings, usually at your registrar or website host. Changing the domain needs permission to manage the series' organisers, which owners have.

What you will add

Two DNS records:

  • A CNAME pointing the domain at the address Stagewerk shows you. For a bare domain (no subdomain) your DNS provider may call this an ALIAS or ANAME record.
  • A TXT record that proves the domain is yours.

Steps

  1. Choose "Seasons" in the sidebar and scroll to "Custom domain".
  2. Enter your domain in "Domain" and choose "Save domain".
  3. The page shows the address to point your CNAME (or ALIAS or ANAME) at. At your DNS provider, add it.
  4. The page also shows a TXT record: a name beginning _stagewerk-challenge. followed by your domain, and a value. Add that record too, exactly as shown.
  5. Wait for DNS to update. This can take minutes or longer, depending on your provider.
  6. Choose "Check DNS".

The status next to your domain shows pending until both records are found, then verified. Both records must be correct. Once it is verified, the domain shows your current season's site on its home page and your standings at /standings.

Keep it working

  • Leave both records in place. Stagewerk checks them from time to time. A verified domain is only marked unverified after several failed checks in a row, so a short DNS outage will not take it down.
  • To change domain, enter the new one in "Domain" and save, then add the new records.
  • To stop using it, choose "Remove domain" and confirm. The platform address is unaffected.

If something goes wrong

  • It stays pending after "Check DNS". One of the records is missing, mistyped or has not spread yet. Check the TXT record name carefully: some DNS providers add the domain for you, so you should enter only the part before it.
  • The domain is refused when you save. It may be one that cannot be used, such as an address on the platform itself. Choose a domain you own.
  • You do not see "Custom domain". Your organisation is not a series, or your role cannot manage the series' organisers.
  • Public pages other than the home page and standings. Rounds, results and event pages are served from the same domain by the platform's normal public pages.