How to Set Up Your Custom Domain in Hover

Replace your thinkific.com URL with a branded Hover domain! See Custom Domains for more general information or if you have a different domain host.

In this article:

Set Up Your Custom Domain Using Hover's Connect Feature

Set Up Your Custom Domain Using a CNAME Record

Using Hover's Connect Feature

With Hover, we have a quick and easy option to set up your Thinkific site using their Connect feature! Using their Connect feature, if you purchase a domain through Hover, you can easily set up your Thinkific site be to be accessible at www.your-new-domain.com.

When adding a custom domain to Thinkific, it requires a subdomain. A subdomain precedes your main domain name. For example in www.your-new-domain.com, www is the subdomain. When using Hover's connect feature, your domain will automatically be set up with www. If you prefer a unique subdomain see Set Up Using a CNAME Record.

1. First, log into Hover, and choose Domains from the Your Account dropdown:
   
2. If you have more than 1 domain, select the domain you would like to use to set up your custom URL for your Thinkific site. Otherwise, once in your domain, click into the Connect tab.
   
   In this example, our custom domain purchased from Hover is steely-muskrat.com
   
3. Find and select Thinkific in the list of applications.
   
4. You'll see a screen like the one below where all you need to do is input your Thinkific site URL, click connect, and Hover does the rest for you!
   
   If you're not sure what your Thinkific site URL is, you can find this in your Thinkific account under Settings > Site URL. For the purpose of this example, our Thinkific site URL is mysite.thinkific.com
   
5. Hover automatically creates your new custom domain for your Thinkific site at www.your-new-domain.com Following our previous example, the new custom domain that we add to our Thinkific site, is www.steely-muskrat.com.
   
   
   See the following instructions for how to return to Thinkific to add your new domain and test out your changes!
   How to Add Your Custom Domain to Thinkific
   How to Test Your Custom Domain

Using a CNAME Record

If you decide that you want your custom domain for your Thinkific site to be available under something other than the www subdomain, you will need to do this by manually adding a CNAME record in your Hover account. A subdomain precedes your main domain name. For example in courses.your-new-domain.com, courses is the subdomain.  Other than www, popular subdomain choices include learn, or courses.

For example, if I own the domain steely-muskrat.com and want to have my Thinkific site available at courses.steely-muskrat.com, I will need to do this using a CNAME record.

1. Log into Hover, and choose Domains from the Your Account dropdown:
   
2. If you have more than 1 domain, select the domain you would like to use to set up your custom URL for your Thinkific site. Click on the DNS tab:
   
3. From there, click on the Add A Record button:
   
4. In the pop up, select a CNAME record from the dropdown and complete the fields:
   • Hostname: your desired subdomain; following our example, we used courses
   • Target name: your Thinkific site URL (without the https://); following our example, it would be yoursite.thinkific.com
   • TTL: leave as the default
     
5. Once you have connected your CNAME record, refer to the following articles for testing out your changes and setting your custom domain as the primary domain for your site!
   How to Test Your CNAME Record
   How to Add Your Custom Domain to Thinkific
   How to Test Your Custom Domain 

 

Please contact Hover directly and send them a link to this article if you need a hand with setting up your CNAME record.

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