What you'll need
- Access to your domain's DNS settings at your registrar
- Your own domain name you want to use (e.g.
dashboard.yourbrand.com) - A plan tier that includes custom domains, for the social/guest-portal domain specifically
Steps
- Go to Branding, and find the Custom Domain cards — one for your Control Panel (your own dashboard login URL), one for your Social Portal (the domain for your captive portal — the mini-browser window a guest's phone opens automatically when they join your WiFi).
- Each card shows the CNAME target you need to point at — a CNAME is a DNS record that points your own domain name at MyWiFi's servers. Copy it.
- At your domain registrar, create a CNAME record for your chosen subdomain (e.g.
dashboard.yourbrand.com) pointing to that target. - Back in MyWiFi, enter your domain and save. MyWiFi does a live DNS check — if your CNAME isn't resolving correctly yet, it tells you immediately rather than accepting a broken domain.
- Once the DNS check passes, your domain shows as pending. It is not live yet.
- Activation to active is completed by MyWiFi staff on their side — expect a delay, not instant activation, after your DNS check passes.
Once a domain is active, you can't edit it yourself from this screen — contact support for a change after that point.
Best practice: set up your DNS record first and give it time to propagate before entering the domain in MyWiFi — a CNAME that hasn't propagated yet will fail the live check even if you configured it correctly.
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