Using custom domain names on VBOUT landing pages

You can use your own domain name or sub-domain to point to your landing pages created on the Vbout. Furthermore, you can point the same domain name to multiple sub-pages from the same system. Below are simple instructions on how to use your own domain name:

If you don’t have a domain name already, you’ll need to choose and register one. You can purchase a domain name from a number of popular registrar sites. Our domain partner have good pricing and a simple domain name management. Registrars will charge you an annual service fee to maintain your domain, but Vbout itself does not charge you extra for this feature.

Once you’ve registered your domain name, you’ll need to update the Domain Name System (DNS) settings with your registrar. On your registrar’s DNS settings page, create a CNAME record pointing it to “landing.vbout.com” so your registrar knows to direct people from all your “xxx.my-business-name.com” subdomains to the the Vbout redirect engine. All registrars should have documentation on how to do this (Our support can always assist you in getting this configuration setup properly).

Below is an example of a domain managed from a CPANEL domain name DNS configuration:

After you’ve updated your domain’s DNS settings with your registrar, enter your domain name inside the designated field. Depending on your registrar, it may take anywhere from few minutes to few days to propagate.

Once you complete this setup you will be able to use your custom subdomain to point to your created landing page using this format: subdomain.my-business-name.com/page/[PAGE-ID] where page ID is the unique identifier of the page as provided by Vbout.com.

Making your root domain point to your landing page instead of a subdomain (i.e: adding www.mysite.com follows the same concept as above with a couple additional steps involved:

1. Add your main domain to your settings on Vbout as in the above screenshot. i.e: add www.mysite.com or mysite.com to your settings on Vbout.com.
2. Activate the option on Vbout to point to root domain. Check below:
   
3. On the Cname configuration of your domain you will have to add 2 records one for www.mysite.com, and the other for *.mysite.com and make each one of them point to landing.vbout.com.
   NOTE: if you are using Godaddy, you won’t be able to point your Wildcard domain to an external site. You will have to use Godady’s domain forwarding to redirect from yousite.com to www.yoursite.com.

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