Client Guide · Domain Connection
Capers Ventures · How-To
Connect Your Domain
— the safe way
To put your new pages, booking, and forms on your own web address, we point a small piece of your domain (a subdomain like start.yourdomain.com) at our system. This never touches your existing website — it just adds a new door. Below is exactly how, for each registrar. Follow it yourself, hand it to your web person, or send it to us and we'll do it.
The idea in one minute
Your domain's registrar (where you bought it — GoDaddy, Cloudflare, etc.) is the authority that decides where the name points. Whoever has access there can add a subdomain and aim it anywhere — the same way a big building can add a new suite without moving the front lobby.
We only ever add a subdomain (e.g. start., book., go.). Your main site (yourdomain.com) keeps working exactly as it does today. Fully reversible — delete one record and it's gone.
The one thing we need: a single CNAME record added to your DNS — a Name (the subdomain) pointing to a Target we give you. That's it. Two ways to make it happen: (A) you add the record (steps below), or (B) you give us delegated access and we add it. Both are safe — no shared passwords needed.
GoDaddyCloudflareNetwork SolutionsDomain in HighLevelOther → we'll add it
What we give you to paste: the exact Name and Target for your CNAME. If you don't have it yet, ask us — it looks like Name: start · Target: your-site.pages.dev.
Do it by registrar
GoDaddy
~3 min
You / your web person (browser)
- Sign in at godaddy.com → Domain Portfolio (or My Products → Domains).
- Click your domain → DNS (or Manage DNS).
- Add New Record → Type:
CNAME.
- Name: the subdomain we gave you (e.g.
start) · Value/Points to: the Target we gave you · TTL: leave default (1 hour).
- Save. Tell us it's done — it goes live within minutes to an hour.
[ screenshot: GoDaddy → DNS → Add Record → CNAME form ]
Prefer we do it? — delegate access (no password shared)
- GoDaddy → Account Settings → Delegate Access.
- Invite to Access → enter [email protected] → choose Products, Domains & Purchase (or Domains).
- Send. We accept and add the record for you. Revoke anytime from the same screen.
For our team / automated (GoDaddy API)
- Key+Secret from developer.godaddy.com/keys → keychain
godaddy-api-key / godaddy-api-secret.
- PUT https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/{domain}/records/CNAME/{name}
Authorization: sso-key {key}:{secret}
[{ "data": "{target}", "ttl": 3600 }]
Cloudflare (domain/DNS on Cloudflare)
~2 min
You / your web person (browser)
- Sign in at dash.cloudflare.com → select your domain.
- Left menu → DNS → Records → Add record.
- Type:
CNAME · Name: start · Target: the Target we gave you · Proxy status: DNS only (grey cloud) unless we tell you otherwise.
- Save.
[ screenshot: Cloudflare → DNS → Add record → CNAME ]
Prefer we do it? — invite us as a member
- Cloudflare → Manage Account → Members → Invite → [email protected] → role DNS (or Administrator). Revoke anytime.
For our team / automated (Cloudflare API)
- Token with Zone · DNS · Edit → POST /zones/{zone_id}/dns_records { "type":"CNAME","name":"start","content":"{target}","proxied":false }
Network Solutions
~4 min
You / your web person (browser)
- Sign in at networksolutions.com → Account Manager.
- My Domain Names → select the domain → Manage.
- Advanced DNS (or Change Where Domain Points → Advanced DNS) → Manage next to CNAME (Aliases).
- Add/Edit → Alias:
start → Refers to Host Name: the Target we gave you → Continue → Save Changes.
[ screenshot: Network Solutions → Advanced DNS → CNAME/Alias — to capture on first live use ]
Prefer we do it?
- Network Solutions has limited delegated access — easiest is a screen-share where you're logged in and we walk it, or you paste the record above. (No public DNS API — UI only.)
Steps verified against Network Solutions' current Advanced DNS flow; we'll drop a screenshot here the first time we do one live.
Your site is inside HighLevel / a web-dev's platform
varies
If your pages are published through a platform (HighLevel, or a developer who hosts for you), DNS still lives at your registrar — add the subdomain CNAME there using the matching section above; it won't disturb the pages your developer manages. Two extra notes:
If we're taking over the whole account
- In the HighLevel sub-account: Settings → My Staff → Add Employee → [email protected] → role Admin. Now we manage pages, domains, and automations directly.
If a developer hosts your pages (coexistence)
- They keep your main site; we add our subdomain via the registrar (above) for the new pages/forms/booking. Nothing of theirs changes. If they'd rather add the record, send them the Name + Target and this guide.
How we confirm it worked
- We check the record resolves (
dig CNAME start.yourdomain.com → points to the Target).
- We attach the subdomain on our side and load the page — you'll see your new pages live on your address.
- If it's not live within an hour, the record was usually typed slightly off (a trailing dot, wrong Target) — send us a screenshot and we'll spot it.
Your existing website is never at risk. We only add a subdomain record. Your main site keeps pointing exactly where it does now, and any record we add can be removed in one click.
Not sure which one you're on?
Send us your domain and we'll tell you your registrar and hand you the exact record to paste — or take it from here if you delegate access. One record, and your pages live on your own name.