# Use a custom domain for your status page

Every status page is served at HostTracker addresses that work immediately, with no DNS setup. Serving a page from
your own hostname, such as `status.example.com`, is planned but **not available yet**.

:::caution[Not available yet]
There is no custom-domain setting in the app today, and the API cannot set one (`customDomain` on a status page is
read-only and empty). This page describes where your page lives now and how the feature is designed to work, so you
can plan for it. Do not change DNS for a status page yet.
:::

## Where your page is served today

```
https://status.host-tracker.com/<slug>
https://www.host-tracker.com/status/<slug>
```

Both serve the same page with a valid certificate. The slug is chosen when you
[create the page](/status-pages/create/) and cannot be changed.

If you want `status.example.com` in the meantime, you can link to your HostTracker address from your own site, or
[embed the status card](/status-pages/embeds-exports/) on a page you host.

## How it is designed to work

When custom domains become available, the setup is planned to be:

1. On the page's **Settings** tab, open **Custom domain**, enter the hostname and click **Set up**.
2. Add the records the editor shows at your DNS provider - a `CNAME` pointing your hostname to HostTracker, and a
   `TXT` record that proves you own it.
3. Click **Check status**. DNS changes can take from a few minutes to a few hours; the status moves from **Pending
   DNS** to **Live** once the records validate and a certificate is issued.
4. The HostTracker addresses keep working alongside your domain. **Remove** stops serving the page on your domain.

Planned rules: the feature is for the Enterprise band (not the 30-day trial), a hostname under `host-tracker.com`
is refused, and if a plan later stops including custom domains the domain stops serving (**Plan downgraded**)
until you upgrade again.

These details may change before launch; this page will be updated when the feature ships.

## Related

- [Create a status page](/status-pages/create/)
- [Embed and export a status page](/status-pages/embeds-exports/)
- [Status page plan limits](/status-pages/plan-limits/)