# Connect a domain

Add your own domain to the storefront, point its DNS at us, verify it, and choose whether it serves, redirects or aliases.

Every storefront has a default address to begin with, marked **Default** in the list and always available. Connecting your own domain adds to that rather than replacing it.

![The Domains screen listing the storefront addresses: a default neuracrm.com address marked Default and Connected, ironvale.localhost marked Primary and Connected, ironvale.ie at Verifying DNS, ironvale-industrial.eu at Waiting for DNS, shop.ironvale-industrial.co.uk Connected, and www.ironvale.co.uk marked Redirect and Connected.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/storefront/domains/domains-list.png)

*Every address the storefront answers on, with what each one does.*

> **Before you start:**
>
> A domain you own, and access to its DNS records at your registrar.

## Add the domain

- Open Storefront Settings and select **Domains**.
- Select **Connect domain**.
- In **Domain name**, enter the hostname, such as `shop.example.com`.
- Choose a **Domain type**.
- Select the control that connects it. The domain joins the list, waiting for DNS.

## The three domain types

- **Primary domain**: Displayed in the address bar. Everything else redirects or aliases to it.
- **Redirecting domain**: Sends visitors on to the primary domain.
- **Alias domain**: Serves the storefront while keeping its own name in the address bar.

An alias is what you want for a second country's domain, because the visitor stays on the address they typed. A redirect is for an old name or a spelling you bought defensively.

## Point the DNS and verify

- Select **DNS** on the domain's row to see the record it needs, with its **Type**, **Name** and **Value**.
- Add that record at your registrar.
- Come back and select **Verify**.

DNS changes take their own time to spread, so a verification that fails straight after a change is usually early rather than wrong. Leave it and try again.

## Reading the status

- **Waiting for DNS**: The record has not been seen yet. Add it, or give it time to propagate.
- **Verifying DNS**: The check is under way.
- **Connected**: The domain is live and serving.
- **Error**: Something is wrong with the record. The message under the list names the domain and says what was found.

## Change or remove a domain

Select **Type** on a row to change what the domain does. **Remove** takes it off the storefront and asks you to confirm first.

> **Warning:**
>
> Removing a domain stops it serving the storefront immediately, and any link or printed material carrying that address stops working with it.