How to Connect Your Own Domain to ChanTan Studio

Connect a domain you bought anywhere — GoDaddy, Namecheap or any other provider — to your ChanTan Studio app: two CNAME records, one button, HTTPS done for you.

Already own a domain? You can connect it to your ChanTan app no matter where you bought it — GoDaddy, Namecheap, anywhere. Your site goes live on a free address first; your domain connects on top.

The whole job is: add two records at your domain provider, paste your domain in ChanTan, press one button. HTTPS (the padlock) is created for you — there is nothing to buy, upload or configure.

1. Publish your app

Your app must be published before a domain can point at it. Press "Publish" — the last item in your project header (on a phone, the round rocket icon at the end of the header row) — choose the "Free address" card, pick your address name on the "Pick your free address" screen, and press "Publish my app". The free address goes live in about 1–4 minutes. The full flow is in how to publish your app.

2. Open the domain section

Three ways to get there:

• During the first publish: choose the "I have a domain" card, then "Publish, then connect it". After your site is live, the success screen offers "Now connect {your domain} →" with your domain already filled in.
• Any time later: press "Publish" and use the domain section of "Your published app".
• Or open "Manage ▾" → "Domain" (this menu item appears once your app is published).

3. Add two records at your domain provider

Log in where you bought your domain (GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc.) and find its DNS settings — the page where you tell the internet which server your domain points at. It is usually called "DNS", "DNS management" or "Records". Add these two records:

⚠️ It must be CNAME. If ChanTan finds A or AAAA records instead, you'll see "Needs CNAME". Many providers allow a CNAME on the bare domain under a setting called "CNAME flattening" or "ALIAS" — two names for the same trick, so look for either. If yours offers neither, connect only the www version of your domain.

4. Paste your domain and press "Connect domain"

Back in ChanTan, type your domain and press "Connect domain". Underneath it says: "We will keep checking in the background after this starts." — so you can close the page.

5. Watch the badge until it says "Connected"

The badge on your domain card walks through the stages:

✅ You're done when the badge says "Connected". It only turns green when the address works and its HTTPS certificate is active.

How often ChanTan re-checks for you:

The card always shows "Last checked {ago}" and "Next check {when}". If checks stop after 48 hours, your domain is not lost — only the automatic checking stopped.

If a record is wrong, ChanTan tells you exactly which

Every record gets its own status chip: "Record is correct" · "Wrong value" · "Needs CNAME" · "Could not check". And the message spells out the fix, for example: "CNAME www points to {observed}. Change it to domains.chantan.one." Edit that record at your provider, then press "Check now".

Good to know

• www and the plain domain both work. Visitors typing www.yoursite.com are permanently redirected to yoursite.com. Connecting several domains? Mark one as "Primary".
• DNS editing inside ChanTan exists only for domains bought through ChanTan. For a domain bought elsewhere, the panel says it plainly: DNS is managed wherever you purchased it — ChanTan can check the connection, but not edit it.
• Email on the same domain: an MX record — the record that sends you@yoursite.com mail to your mail provider — can't sit on the bare domain (@) while it has a CNAME. If you hit "Cannot set MX Record and CNAME together", keep email records off @ or ask your provider about CNAME flattening options.
• Removing a domain never deletes it. The trash icon only stops serving your ChanTan app on it — the domain stays yours, and your free ChanTan address keeps working.

When to contact support

If the badge still says "Needs attention" more than 48 hours after your records were correct — or the message on the card names something you can't change at your provider — write to support@chantan.studio. Include your domain name, your project name, and the exact wording on the card. Bought the domain through ChanTan? Add the "Order {id}" from the purchase screen too.

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