Hi Folks,
I have a custom domain name called aidojo.world which is hosted on GoDaddy and has a custom CNAME assigned so that users get redirected to aidojo.discourse.group .
The issue Im facing is that Im getting the following error. Does anyone know what the issue is ?
I think if you want to use an apex/root domain rather than a subdomain for this (eg. community.aidojo.world) then you’d need a DNS provider that supports it.
There’s some special instructions here that may be useful:
I could be wrong, but your forum is hosted by the Discourse for Open Source program, right?
(I ask because of the domain *.discourse.group)
If that’s the case, Custom Domains is not available as far as I remember
This is relatively new, but sites on Discourse’s Basic, Standard, and Business plans can all be hosted on a subdomain of discourse.group. Custom domains can be configured for sites on the Standard and Business plans. Sites on the Basic plan have to stick with a subdomain of discourse.group: Discourse pricing | Discourse - Civilized Discussion.
Discourse is open source software. It can either be hosted by a hosting company (for example, Discourse’s hosting business) or self hosted. In either case, you are still using the open source version of Discourse. I’m a little biased, but I’d choose to have Discourse host my sites for me whenever possible.
Hi Simon,
Does this mean that if I now own the domain name e.g. “www.1234love.com”
I can 100% host my discourse forum on that domain if I subscribe to the “Standard or Business/Enterprise” solutions ?
That’s right. 
And as the www version is a subdomain, all DNS providers would allow you to do that.
thank you folks so much 
I will take the plunge and invest in a Standard/Business solution soon.
I could launch the forum now but I feel it would be strange to change the name later on so I will wait until it is ready.
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