What is domain mapping?
Domain mapping replaces your onsugar.com url with your custom domain name. For example, you could domain map mysite.onsugar.com to mycustomdomain.com.
How do I map my domain?
To map your domain, you need to complete the following three steps.
- At your domain registrar, forward yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com. Make sure you select "301 moved permanently" when you set your forwarding.
- Set your www CNAME to yoursite.onsugar.com
- Enter www.yourdomain.com into the "Custom Domain URL" field on the domain mapping page. To get to the domain mapping page, click on "Domain Mapping" in your site's dropdown menu.
Please note: be sure to change yoursite and yourdomain to the actual URLs you are trying to map.
Are there any restrictions with domain mapping?
Due to legal restrictions, we cannot offer free Getty Images to sites that do not end in onsugar.com. If you choose to map your domain to your onsugar site, you will no longer have access to our free Getty images, and will be fully responsible for any licensing of images that you publish on your blog. To learn more, read our full Terms of Service.
Additionally, due to technical restrictions, we cannot offer the ability for your commenters to post their comments directly to Facebook.
What is the difference between forwarding and mapping?
When you forward a domain, users type in yourdomain.com into their address bar and get redirected to yoursite.onsugar.com. With domain mapping, users will never see onsugar.com in the address bar.
I mapped my site, but I still see yoursite.onsugar.com in the address bar. What is happening?
Once domain mapping has occured, it will take 24 hours for all the links to forward correctly. After that period of time, yoursite.onsugar.com will begin forwarding to yourdomain.com, and your onsugar.com url will no longer appear.
Do you have GoDaddy.com specific instructions?
Yes. If you use GoDaddy.com as your site registrar and would like to map your domain, simply follow the directions below.
- Login to your GoDaddy account
- Go to "My Domains"
- Click on the domain you want to map.
- Click on the “Nameservers” icon, change it to “Parked nameservers” and then click OK (this may already be set).
- Click on the “Forward” icon and then click the enable forwarding box. In the blank field type http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com and then select 301 moved permanently. When finished, click OK.
- Click on the “Total DNS Control and MX Records” link in the middle of the page (this might not show up until the nameservers have been set).
- Under the CNAMES section, find the www line and click on the pencil icon at the end of the row.
Here you need to enter an alias name: www
The points to host name should be: YOURURL.onsugar.com
Change the TTL to 1/2 hour and click OK - Now go back to OnSugar and click on the “Domain Mapping” link in your drop down menu. Here add www.YOURDOMAIN.com in the field and then click “Map to This Domain”
Note: Make sure that you change YOURDOMAIN.com and YOURURL to their respective links.
