Custom Domains

The Standard, Professional, and Premium plans can be configured to respond to your own domain name (as in yourdomain.com) instead of YourSite.editme.com.

EditMe does not currently provide domain hosting, so you must "point" your domain to our servers. This is typically done by logging into the web site where you purchased your domain and changing the DNS for the domain you want to use for your EditMe site. Most domain registrars provide DNS management tools, but they're all a little different, making it hard to provide a single set of instructions.

Here's an example of the steps you might take to set this up:

1. Buy a domain name. For businesses, EditMe recommends Network Solutions or Register.com. They are both trusted and respected domain name registrars. For personal users, try GoDaddy, whose prices are hard to beat. All of these provide free DNS hosting with your domain. The company you bought your domain from is called the "registrar".
2. Manage your DNS. Log into your registrar's web site and find the domain management section. Look for DNS tools. (See help links for various registrars below)
3. Point your domain to EditMe. Create an alias, or CNAME, to point www.YourDomain.com to YourAccount.EditMe.com.
   Examples:
     YOURDOMAIN.com is another name for YOURSITE.editme.com
     SUBDOMAIN.YOURDOMAIN.info is another name for YOURSITE.editme.com
   For various reasons, you may want to use an A (or HOST) record instead. In this case you'll need the IP address for your EditMe site. If you're familiar with "ping", use that. Otherwise, contact support and we can give you your site's IP address.
   Do NOT use a Web Forward with "Masking" or "Cloaking" to point to your EditMe site. A "security feature" in Internet Explorer 6.0 will block the session cookie used to authenticate users and nobody will be able to log into your site.
4. Open a ticket in the EditMe Contact Center or email support @ editme.com.  We need to know which domains you want your site to respond to. Please provide these instructions (e.g. "Please make myaccount.editme.com respond to www.mydomain.com.") and allow up to 24 hours for processing.

Help for DNS Tools at various registrars

Network Solutions 

• What is the Advanced DNS Manager?
• Three Types Of Domain Name Server (DNS) Records That Can Be Changed

GoDaddy

• List of "Working with Total DNS" Articles
• Managing DNS for your Domain
• Creating CNAME records
• Creating A records

Register.com

• How do I change my IP address? 

Still need help?

Contact support. If you give us a login for your registrar account, we're happy to configure this for you.