Own the address
Custom Domain Link in Bio: Own Every Pixel of Your Page
A custom domain link in bio puts your page at links.yourname.com instead of a platform URL. On ExclusiveLink Pro, you connect any domain you own with one CNAME record, and no platform branding appears anywhere.
01Why it matters
The URL is part of the pitch
Every bio, business card, QR code and email signature carries your link. The question is whose name it carries.
When a follower reads linktr.ee/yourname, the platform gets the first impression and you get the leftovers. When they read links.yourname.com, the whole exchange stays inside your brand. For anyone charging premium prices, that difference reads as legitimacy before a single word of copy loads.
Ownership is also insurance. A platform URL belongs to the platform: if you ever switch tools, every printed QR code, every old description and every press mention keeps pointing at an address you do not control. Your own domain moves with you. The links you have spread across the internet for years never break.
And there is the plain trust math: people hesitate before tapping unfamiliar shortener-style URLs. A domain that matches the name they already follow removes the pause.
02The setup
One CNAME record, and the rest is automatic
Connecting a domain sounds technical. It is three steps, and two of them are copying and pasting.
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Pick the address
Use a domain you own, or register one for around $12 a year. Most creators choose a subdomain such as links.yourname.com so the main site stays untouched.
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Add one CNAME record
In your registrar's DNS panel, point the subdomain at ExclusiveLink with a single CNAME record. We show the exact value to paste; there is nothing else to configure.
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SSL issues itself
The certificate is provisioned and renewed automatically. Most domains verify within minutes, and your page answers at the new address with the padlock in place.
The custom domain ships with the Pro plan at $49 a month, alongside 0% platform fees and full analytics; details on the link in bio pricing page. Want to see the page you would be putting there? Build one in the link in bio maker first.
03Brand, complete
No badge, no footer credit, no exceptions
A custom domain only finishes the job if the page behind it is clean too.
Yours end to end
No ExclusiveLink badge or upsell banner on any plan. From the URL to the unlock receipt, your audience sees one brand: yours.
Sales on your address
Gated and paid links work identically on your domain, and checkout trust rises when the address matches the brand being paid.
Analytics follow the domain
Every click on the new address flows into the same per-link, per-source, per-country reporting. Nothing forks, nothing is lost in the move.
04A studio's move
What changed when the URL did
A two-person design studio ran a platform-branded link page for years: it sat in their Instagram bio, on 400 printed portfolio cards, and in a QR code at every market stall. Moving to links.thestudio.com took one evening, most of it spent finding the registrar password. The CNAME itself was ten minutes.
The payoff: bio taps up a modest but real 12% over the next quarter as the link started matching the name, a $35 gated template pack selling from their own address, and every printed QR code still valid because the domain, not the platform, is what the ink points to.
The move, itemized
| Domain renewal | $12/yr |
| DNS work | 1 CNAME, 10 min |
| SSL certificate | Automatic |
| Printed QR codes reprinted | 0 |
| Bio taps, next quarter | +12% |
| Template pack sales, monthly | $1,120 |
05Small print, answered
The three hesitations about domains
I do not own a domain yet. Any registrar sells one in five minutes for about $12 a year, and you can start on exclusive.link/yourname today and connect the domain later.
DNS intimidates me. It is one record, we show the exact text to paste, and nothing you do here can affect your existing website or email.
What happens to my old link? Your exclusive.link address keeps working and forwards to the domain, so nothing you have posted anywhere goes dead.
Your name on the door
Stop renting your address. The domain is yours; the page should be too.
Claim your page now and connect links.yourname.com the same evening.