Custom domains for every member's page
Point your own domain at your NamesRanker page with DNS verification and canonical care baked in — no code, no configuration files.
namesranker.com/your-name is a great URL. yourname.com is a better one. It's the address you put on a business card, the domain in your email signature, the link a journalist types from memory. From today, every member's page can be served from a domain you own — with setup that takes minutes and no code.
Here's how it works and why we built it the way we did.
Why your own domain
A custom domain does two things a subpath can't. First, it's yours: you control it, it outlives any platform, and it looks like the definitive home for your name. Second, it lets you retire an old site gracefully — instead of leaving a stale domain live (and outranking you), you point it at your name page and let Google consolidate the authority.
Setup is three steps
No configuration files, no reverse proxies, no ticket to support:
- Add your domain in Settings on the page you want to serve from it.
- Publish the TXT record we give you at your DNS provider — that's the entire verification.
- Confirm verification, and your page is live on your domain, typically within minutes.
The same flow works for hubs and sub-pages, so your whole presence can live under one host you own.
The canonical care
The moment a page is served from two hosts, there are two copies of it on the internet — and Google treats duplicate content as a bug, ranking both copies lower. That's the trap most custom-domain setups fall into.
NamesRanker avoids it with host-relative canonicals: the canonical tag always points at the host the reader is on. When Google crawls yourname.com, the page tells Google it belongs on yourname.com; when it crawls the namesranker.com copy, that copy defers to your domain. The two never compete — authority consolidates on your host.
Everything else just works
Your sitemap updates automatically to use your domain, sub-page links stay relative so they work on either host, and your Search Console connection keeps tracking the same page. If you remove the domain, the page returns to namesranker.com with the same content and no interruption.
Your name deserves a home you own. It's three steps away.