Domains, DNS and HTTPS
Your newsletter works on a free issuemint.com address from the day you sign up. Adding your own domain moves the website and the sending onto it, in one visit to your DNS provider.
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The address your newsletter gets on day one
Every newsletter gets a slug.issuemint.com address as soon as it is created, with the website, the feed and HTTPS working, and it keeps working after a custom domain.
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The records, and what each one does
Every record Issue Mint generates for a custom domain, what it is for, which ones are optional, and the one Cloudflare setting that makes a correct record look missing.
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Adding a custom domain
What to type in the domain field, what Issue Mint generates the moment you add a domain, and why one visit to your DNS provider covers the website and the sending.
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Verification, statuses and re-checks
Which resolvers Issue Mint queries, how often it re-checks a domain, what the record and domain statuses mean, and what happens when a working domain breaks.
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HTTPS on a custom domain
How Issue Mint issues and renews an HTTPS certificate for every hostname it serves, what the certificate records delegate, and why a hostname can resolve and still warn.
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The bare domain, or www
Issue Mint puts your website on the bare domain by default, offers www when a provider cannot point the root at us, and what changes when you switch between them.
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Removing a domain
What changes when a custom domain is removed: your website address, click tracking, where issues are sent from, and the links in already-sent issues that stop working.
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Adding the records at your provider
A guide for each DNS provider our customers use, plus the two things that genuinely differ between them: what the host field wants, and whether the root takes a CNAME.
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Adding your records at Cloudflare
Where the Issue Mint records go in the Cloudflare dashboard, why every one of them belongs on DNS only rather than proxied, and how the root of the domain behaves.
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Adding your records at GoDaddy
Where the Issue Mint records go in GoDaddy's DNS screen, what the Name and Points to fields expect, and why the bare domain ends up on the www address.
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Adding your records at Namecheap
Where the Issue Mint records go on Namecheap's Advanced DNS tab, how the ALIAS Record type covers the root of a domain, and what the Host field expects.
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Adding your records at Squarespace Domains
Where the Issue Mint records go in Squarespace's DNS settings, what the custom records fields expect, and what to do about the root of a domain moved from Google.
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Adding your records at Amazon Route 53
How to create the Issue Mint records in a Route 53 hosted zone, including the quoting Route 53 wants on TXT values and why an alias cannot cover the root.
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Adding your records at DNSimple
Where the Issue Mint records go in DNSimple's record editor, how an ALIAS record covers the root of a domain, and what the Name field expects for each host.
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Adding your records at Gandi
Where the Issue Mint records go on Gandi's DNS records tab, why a CNAME value needs a trailing dot there, and what to do about the root of the domain.
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Pointing a Hover domain at your newsletter
Where Hover keeps its DNS editor, what its Hostname and Value fields expect, and why a Hover domain runs on its www address rather than the bare one.
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Pointing a Porkbun domain at your newsletter
Where the DNS records screen sits at Porkbun, what its Host and Answer fields expect, and how an ALIAS record puts your newsletter on the bare domain.
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Pointing an IONOS domain at your newsletter
Finding DNS under Domains and SSL at IONOS, what its Host name and Points to fields expect, and which records put a newsletter on your own domain.
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Pointing a 123 Reg domain at your newsletter
The Manage DNS screen at 123 Reg, which of its boxes take each part of a record, and the www address a 123 Reg domain ends up on because the root cannot be a CNAME.
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Pointing a Netlify-managed domain at your newsletter
Adding records in the Netlify DNS panel, what its Name and Value fields expect, and what to do when a Netlify site already holds the hostname you want.
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Pointing a Vercel-managed domain at your newsletter
Adding records to a Vercel DNS zone, the ALIAS type the root of a domain needs there, and what changes for a Vercel project already serving that hostname.
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