Custom Domains for Online Course Platforms

Why custom domains matter for course platforms

Course creators sell to their audience, not to your platform. When learn.acme.com is on their own domain, conversion goes up, email deliverability goes up, and the creator stops worrying that you'll change pricing and trap their students.

What your users get

• Course pages render at the creator's domain
• Checkout and login flows stay on-brand
• TLS handled forever, including renewals

How it works in 3 steps

1. Your user types their hostname (learn.acme.com) into your UI.
2. your course 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": "learn.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.