# Your name on the door.

> Put your PixelGlass site on blog.example.com or example.com: type the domain, add the DNS records it shows, and PixelGlass checks them for you.

Type your domain, add the records PixelGlass shows you where your DNS is managed, and the check runs by itself. **Once it passes, your PixelGlass address redirects to your domain.** The admin stays where it was.

## By hand, in the admin

1. As the owner, open **Billing** in the admin and its **Domain** tab, or your site's page on pixelglass.co and **Add a domain**.
2. Type the domain, like blog.example.com or example.com. Tick **Also connect www** if you want it too, and press **Connect**.
3. Add each record shown, with its Type, Host and Value, where your DNS is managed. The screen names your provider and links its guide.
4. On Cloudflare, paste an API token instead and press **Add records**. PixelGlass uses the token once and keeps nothing.
5. Wait for the check: every minute at first, then every quarter of an hour, for 48 hours. **Check again** starts a new round, and Notifications tells you when it connects.

## With your agent

> Connect blog.harbourbakery.com to my site, and tell me the records to add.

> Connect harbourbakery.com, with www as well.

> Is my domain connected yet? If not, check it again.

The tools it calls: `connect_domain`, `check_domain`, `site_status`.

These tools are on the PixelGlass connector at pixelglass.co/mcp, which acts for your account. The records are yours to add at your DNS provider, or Cloudflare's to add from a token you paste on the domain screen.

## Examples

- **A bakery's blog on a subdomain.** A bakery keeps its shop on harbourbakery.com and puts the blog on blog.harbourbakery.com: **one CNAME record, and it is connected**.
- **The root of the domain.** A photographer connects her own name. The root takes an A record and a TXT record, and www comes along with a row of its own.
- **Records added from a token.** A consultant's DNS is on Cloudflare. He pastes a token, PixelGlass adds the records as DNS only, and the check starts at once.

## Questions

### How do I use my own domain with PixelGlass?

Open Billing › Domain in the PixelGlass admin, or your site's page on pixelglass.co, type the domain and press Connect. Add the DNS records it shows you, and PixelGlass checks them until they pass.

### Can I connect a root domain, not only a subdomain?

Yes. On PixelGlass a subdomain like blog.example.com takes one CNAME record. A root like example.com takes an A record and a TXT record, because most providers allow no CNAME there.

### What happens to my pixelglass.me address?

Once your domain is connected, a reader who opens the pixelglass.me address is redirected to your domain, and your feeds, sitemap and newsletters use the domain. The PixelGlass admin stays on pixelglass.me.

### Does my domain get HTTPS?

Yes. PixelGlass takes a certificate for your domain by itself once the records pass.

### Who can connect a domain?

The owner of the PixelGlass site, who holds its account. An agent connected at pixelglass.co/mcp can connect it for the owner.

### Why does my domain not connect?

Most often another record sits on the same name, the domain is typed twice in the Host, or Cloudflare proxies the record. The PixelGlass domain screen lists each case; set a Cloudflare record to DNS only.

## See also

- [Make your site private](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-your-site-private): Close your PixelGlass site to everyone but your staff, before a launch or for a newsletter that lives in the inbox. One setting in Settings › General.
- [Set a post up for search](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-a-post-up-for-search): Write the meta title and description, choose the address, add a share picture. PixelGlass writes the rest of the head. By hand or with your agent.
- [Choose a plan](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-plan): Seven plans, every feature on each. They differ in newsletter emails a month and storage, and the emails you do not send roll over for 12 months.
- [SEO and AI search](https://pixelglass.co/features/seo): Every PixelGlass site is ready for Google and AI answer engines: llms.txt, a Markdown twin of every post, sitemaps, feeds, structured data and hreflang.
- [Every guide](https://pixelglass.co/guides)
- [Pricing](https://pixelglass.co/pricing): every feature on every plan, 14 days free
- [Create your site](https://pixelglass.co/signup)