DNS Configuration

Ship It verifies ownership of your domain name using a DNS record. You must create a DNS CNAME record from the public hostname specified for your site to ship-proxy.com. After this occurs, it can take a few minutes for ownership to be verified and the certificate to be created. You can view detailed instructions and the status of verification by clicking Verification Status when viewing a specific site.

Creating a CNAME record for a top level domain (i.e. example.com) may require you to use a registrar which supports apex CNAME records, such as Cloudflare.

Similar to Heroku, hostnames must be unique across Ship It configured sites. Ship It allows users to create a site with a particular hostname without verification on a first-come-first-serve basis. Ship It will not actually serve the page until hostname verification as described above is completed and certificates have been issued. If you attempt to create a site for a domain that you own, and find that it is already in use, contact [email protected] to resolve the issue.