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Hi there sorry for the newbie question

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The community member is having trouble with their DNS redirection, as they are getting an error that their "custom hostname does not CNAME to this zone." The community members suggest that the issue may be due to the domain registrar not allowing CNAME at the root, and recommend migrating the domain to a better registrar like Cloudflare or Namecheap, which do allow CNAME at the root. The community members also advise the original poster to redirect the root to the www subdomain and set the CNAME on the www. After following this advice and migrating the domain to Cloudflare, the original poster reports that the issue was resolved.

Hi there, sorry for the newbie question but it seems my DNS redirection doesn't work. I've created the CNAME record in my OVH DNS zone (with www instead of @ as the name, because OVH doesn't allow @), and added the TXT entry.

On the app, I get the following error : "custom hostname does not CNAME to this zone.".

Is this something common, and only have to wait until DNS propagation, or did I do something wrong?

Thx for your help !
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8 comments
you will need to redirect root to your www and set CNAME on the www
also recommend migrating your domain registrar to something better, e.g. cloudflare or namecheap
they allow CNAME at the root
every registrar that doesn't allow CNAME at the root sucks and you should not pay them any money
hope that helped
thanks for your help, gonna try that
hey, followed your advice and migrated the domain to cloudfare. worked like a charm as soon as the domain was migrated. thanks a lot for your advice !
please do share your site you are building, extremely keen to see, we have a #︳showcase for sharing btw
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