General instructions for setting up a custom domain name

If you purchased your domain through LetsEat, please see the Setting up a Domain with LetsEat.at Domains article.

There are three ways to do this. The first way is a bit harder, but looks the best:

1. Purchase a domain name from a registar such as GoDaddy, MyDomain.com, Network Solutions, etc.

2. Either through their control panel, or by emailing their support staff, point the CNAME of your domain at "letseat.at." (without the quotes, but with the trailing '.'). For instance, in Godaddy, if you are using the domain name "example.com", you would enter "example.com." into the Alias Name and "letseat.at" into the Host Name. You would also want to point "www" at "letseat.at" if you want it to forward as well.

The terminology can vary from registrar to registrar, but the two text fields should appear in that order. When you point your domain name to LetsEat.at, be sure to leave a trailing '.' after your domain, for instance, "yourdomain.com.", or it may not work (this may also depend on your registrar's set up).

3. In Settings » Custom Domain, enter your domain name into the 'Custom domain name' text field, without the "www" (i.e. example.com, not www.example.com) and save.

If all goes well, your URL will automatically redirect. This means that your old menu http://www.letseat.at/yourrestaurant/menu will become http://www.example.com/menu. Keep in mind that it can take up to 72 hours for your settings to take effect.

For your convenience, we have collected links to a few popular domain registrar CNAME help pages:

Godaddy
Register.com
Yahoo! Small Business
Network Solutions

(LetsEat.at cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information contained in the above links.)

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Alternately, two easier methods are to use either "domain masking" or "domain forwarding" with your domain to achieve a similar, though less complete effect.

"Domain masking" will mask the www.letseat.at address in your browser window with your custom domain name (www.example.com). However, every page will appear in the web address as your base address (www.example.com) no matter which page you are on. For example, your menu page will appear as www.example.com, not www.example.com/menu.

"Domain forwarding" will simply redirect users to your LetsEat.at site from your custom domain name.

Please ask your domain registrar for more info.