<aside> 💡 Custom domains are available from the Enterprise plan of Friendly Automate. For customers with Starter or Professional subscriptions, this feature is available for an additional charge. Please contact us if you are interested.

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What are custom domains?

By default, we provide Friendly Automate under a subdomain of ours, e.g. yourname.friendlyautomate.com.

With a custom domain Friendly Automate is available under your own domain or subdomain, e.g. info.yourdomain.com.

This gives you a number of benefits:

• Landing pages run under your own domain or subdomain, e.g. info.yourdomain.com/landingpage1
• Tracking of your website visitors is more reliable. If Friendly Automate runs under a subdomain of ours, you set a so-called "third-party cookie" for tracking your website visitors. This cookie is often automatically deleted after one week on many devices. You can then identify visitors for a maximum of one week. If Friendly Automate is accessible under your own domain or subdomain, you can set a "first-party cookie". This will be stored on your visitors’ devices virtually indefinitely, allowing you to identify your visitors over a very long period of time.
• The links in sent emails for unsubscribing from the mailing list point to your own domain. This has a positive effect on the deliverability of your emails.

The hosting of Friendly Automate is of course completely up to us, even when using custom domains.

How do I set up a custom domain?

Technically, a custom domain works via a so-called domain alias (CNAME). In this way, your domain or subdomain points to our servers. This is how you set it up:

1. Decide on the name of your custom domain

A custom domain is usually a subdomain of your main domain. Only in this way you can benefit from all the advantages of a custom domain. If your main domain is yourdomain.com, a subdomain of it would be xyz.yourdomain.com, for example.

These subdomain names are most popular with our customers:

• info.yourdomain.com
• marketing.yourdomain.com
• hello.yourdomain.com
• friendly.yourdomain.com
• automation.yourdomain.com