Managing a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site

You can set up or update certain DNS records and your repository settings to point the default domain for your GitHub Pages site to a custom domain.

Who can use this feature?

GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. See GitHub's plans.

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People with admin permissions for a repository can configure a custom domain for a GitHub Pages site.

About custom domain configuration

Tip

We recommend verifying your custom domain prior to adding it to your repository, in order to improve security and avoid takeover attacks. For more information, see Verifying your custom domain for GitHub Pages.

Make sure you add your custom domain to your GitHub Pages site before configuring your custom domain with your DNS provider. Configuring your custom domain with your DNS provider without adding your custom domain to GitHub could result in someone else being able to host a site on one of your subdomains.

The dig command, which can be used to verify correct configuration of DNS records, is not included in Windows. To verify that your DNS records are configured correctly, you can use the Resolve-DnsName PowerShell command or install BIND.

Note

DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate.

Configuring an apex domain

To set up an apex domain, such as