Connecting a Domain to Your Strikingly Site

Requirements:

• A Premium Account from Strikingly
• A custom domain (if you don't have one yet, you can purchase it from us)

This guide walks you through connecting your domain to your Strikingly site. 

• If you're connecting a subdomain that doesn't start with "www.", such as “mysubdomain.mydomain.com”, please visit Connecting Subdomains to Your Strikingly Site. 
• You can send this tutorial to your registrar’s support team if you need help, or contact us anytime for additional help. 

Catalog

• Step 1: Connect to Your Custom Domain on Strikingly
• Step 2: Find Your Registrar's DNS settings
• Step 3: Clean up your DNS records
• Step 4: Add a CNAME record
• Step 5: Add an A record
• Step 6: Confirm your setup is complete
• Specific Guides for Third-party domain providers

 

 

Step 1: Connect to Your Custom Domain on Strikingly

1. Go to your Strikingly site editor and click SETTINGS > Domains.

2. Enter your custom domain in the "Custom Domain/Subdomain" box, such as "yourdomain.com" (without https:// or http:// or /).

3. Click UPDATE.

• Note: If you purchased your domain from Strikingly, you're done! No need to do the following steps. We'll take care of the rest for you!
• The system will check whether your domain is configured correctly. If it shows the green "Connected", you're all set!
  
  

4. Choose your domain provider and click “Start Configuration”.

• You will see a pop-up that displays the records you'll need to set in your domain settings.

 

Step 2: Find Your Registrar's DNS settings

1. Sign in to your domain registrar's account.
2. Find the DNS Settings for your domain. (It may also be called DNS, DNS manager, DNS records, host record, zone settings, zone file, etc.)

Note: Make sure you only change DNS settings, not Nameservers. Nameservers should not be changed.

 

Step 3: Clean up your DNS records

1. Look for any CNAME record named www and delete it.
2. Look for any A records named “@” and delete them.

 

Step 4: Add a CNAME record

1. Add a new record, and make sure the record type is CNAME.
2. Copy the relevant information from Strikingly and paste it into the corresponding places, as shown in the image below.

Step 5: Add an A record

1. Add a new record, and make sure the record type is A.
2. Copy the relevant information from Strikingly and paste it into the corresponding places, as shown in the image below.

 

Step 6: Confirm your setup is complete

1. After you’ve confirmed the above setup, go back to your Strikingly site editor and click the "I've fixed, check again" button in the pop-up.
2. If you've configured your DNS settings correctly, the pop-up will close and the domain status will show as "connected".
3. If you haven't configured your DNS correctly, the pop-up will display the error status and you should go back to step 3 to configure the DNS records correctly.