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Your workspace address and using your own domain

Every automation workspace comes with its own web address, and you can add your own domain on top of it. This guide covers renaming the included address, understanding why older addresses keep working, and connecting a domain you own. You will find everything on the Addresses card on the Automations tab.

Note: Adding a custom domain requires access to the DNS settings at your domain registrar or DNS provider. If someone else manages your domain, you will need to send them the records shown on the DNS Configuration panel.

Your included address

Every workspace has one address ending in .1smart.app. It is labelled included address on the Addresses card, and it can never be removed. This is the address you use to reach your workspace and the address your webhook URLs are built from.

You can rename it at any time.

  1. Go to the Automations tab and find the Addresses card.
  2. In the field next to .1smart.app, type the name you want.
  3. The availability check runs as you type, exactly as it did when you first created the workspace. If the name is taken, choose another.
  4. Click Rename.

That is all there is to it. The new address is live immediately.

Your previous addresses keep working

Renaming never breaks anything you have already set up. Every earlier .1smart.app name you have used keeps working for ever. If you pasted a webhook URL into a form builder, a shop platform or a notification service months ago, that URL carries on delivering to your workspace after the rename.

On the Addresses card you will see a line such as 1 previous address still working for old webhook links. Click it to expand the list and see every earlier name.

New webhook URLs are always generated from your main address, so anything you build from now on uses the current name. There is no need to go back and update old integrations unless you want to tidy them up.

Add your own domain

Using your own domain — for example automations.yourdomain.com — makes your webhook URLs look like part of your own business rather than a generic address. It is entirely optional, and you can add or remove custom domains whenever you like.

  1. On the Addresses card, find the field for adding a domain.
  2. Type the domain you want to use. This can be a subdomain such as automations.yourdomain.com or a root domain such as yourdomain.com.
  3. Click Add custom domain.
  4. The DNS Configuration panel appears, showing exactly what you need to add at your DNS provider.

Tip: A subdomain such as automations.yourdomain.com is the recommended choice. It uses a CNAME record, which keeps working automatically and leaves your main website untouched.

Read the DNS Configuration panel

The panel shows three pieces of information, each with a copy button so you do not have to retype anything:

FieldWhat it is
TypeThe kind of DNS record to create — either CNAME or A.
Host / NameWhere the record goes within your domain.
Value / TargetWhat the record points to.

Your DNS provider may use slightly different wording for these columns. Host is sometimes called Name, and Value is sometimes called Target, Points to or Content. The meaning is the same.

Subdomain: use a CNAME record

If you entered a subdomain, the panel shows a CNAME record. Copy each value across into a new record at your DNS provider and save it.

Root domain: use an A record

A root domain such as yourdomain.com cannot use a CNAME record, so the panel shows an A record instead. The Host value is @, which means the root of your domain. A few DNS providers prefer this field left blank rather than set to @ — if @ is rejected, try an empty value.

Warning: Adding an A record at your root domain changes where that domain points. If your main website lives at yourdomain.com, use a subdomain instead.

If your domain uses Cloudflare

Set the record to DNS only — the grey cloud icon, not the orange one. A proxied record will stop verification from completing.

Verify the domain

Once the record is saved at your DNS provider, come back to the Addresses card and click Verify.

The status shows Pending DNS until the record is found. When it is found, the status changes to Active and the domain is ready to use.

DNS changes usually appear within 5 to 15 minutes. Occasionally they take up to 48 hours to spread across the internet. If the status is still Pending after a few minutes, wait a little longer and click Verify again.

Choose your main address

Your main address is the one used to build new webhook URLs. Once a custom domain is Active, click Make main next to it to promote it.

You can do this with any active address, including switching back to your .1smart.app address later. Existing webhook URLs continue working on whichever address they were created with — changing the main address only affects URLs generated from that point onwards.

Remove a custom domain

A custom domain that is not your main address has a Remove button next to it.

  1. Click Remove next to the domain you no longer want.
  2. Read the warning. Any webhook URLs using that domain will stop working, because the domain belongs to you and can no longer point to your workspace.
  3. Confirm to remove it.

Your main address has no Remove button. To remove it, use Make main on a different address first, then remove the old one.

Result

Your workspace now answers on the address you chose. Old .1smart.app names keep delivering to existing webhooks, new webhook URLs are built from your main address, and you can swap domains around at any time without losing work.

Troubleshooting

Status stays on Pending DNS. Check the record type, host and value against the DNS Configuration panel character by character. Confirm you saved the record, and give it another 15 minutes before clicking Verify again.

Verification fails on a Cloudflare domain. Open the record in Cloudflare and switch the proxy status to DNS only (grey cloud).

The provider rejects @ as the host. Leave the host field blank instead — some providers treat blank as the root of the domain.

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