Custom Domains for Blog Platforms

Why custom domains matter for blogging platforms

Writers care about SEO, RSS, and the long-term URL stability of their archive. blog.acme.com gives them all three, and it makes the platform feel like infrastructure they own. Ghost, Medium, and Substack all figured this out. The rest of the category should too.

What your users get

• Blog on the writer's own domain
• Stable URLs that outlive a platform switch
• Apex domain support: write at acme.com

How it works in 3 steps

1. Your user types their hostname (blog.acme.com) into your UI.
2. your blogging platform POSTs to the Domainee API to register it and gets back the CNAME the user needs to add at their DNS provider.
3. We monitor DNS, issue the cert via Let's Encrypt, and webhook back when it's live. Usually about 60 seconds.

The code

curl -X POST https://api.domainee.dev/v1/domains \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOMAINEE_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "hostname": "blog.acme.com",
    "originUrl": "https://app.your-saas.com",
    "mode": "proxy",
    "redirectWww": true,
    "metadata": { "workspaceId": "your-internal-id" }
  }'

The response includes a dnsRecords array (usually one CNAME). Show that to your user, tell them to paste it at their DNS provider, and we'll handle the rest.

For the full walkthrough, see How to let users connect a custom domain to your SaaS.

Pricing

Your first 50 customer hostnames and 100 GB of bandwidth every month are free. After that: $0.20 per domain (graduated to $0.10 at scale), $0.05/GB above 400 GB. No monthly minimum, no contract, no sales call.