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Any upgraded Photo Finale or , Foto Depot, or Proofing Gallery site (standard PF, Photo Finale Managed or Photo Finale Enterprisesingle page PFSR or multi-page PFE) may opt to have a custom domain (fees apply).  This means, that instead of yoursite.photofinale.com or yoursite.fotodepot.ca, your site store's web address would be YOURSITEwww.yourphoto.com or yourphoto.yoursite.com and all links would use that URL.  To use your custom domain, there are a few steps... 

How to set up your a custom domain :

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for your site:

1. Buy Domain: If you donhaven't already own registered the domain you want to use, buy it.  Your custom domain name must be pre-approved by Photo Finale to verify that it is unique on our platform and that it follows our guidelines. You can buy it from any service that sells them (like, godaddy.com).
2. Buy SSL: In order to use your custom domain for with ecommerce sales, the site needs to have a valid SSL certificate.  First, buy the SSL certificate from the same site you purchased your domain (or any similar site). When you purchase, you will need to select the protection and plan type.  For most dealers, choose to protect 1 website with a standard plan. You can select whichever timeframe suits you.  
3. Sign CSR: Once you buy the SSL certificate, you will use it to sign a CSR file (which we will send you).  When you sign it with your SSL certificate authority (be it godaddy.com or any other signature authority), you must sign it for an IIS7 server.  
4. Send us CSR zip: Once it is signed, please download the signed CSR from the signature authority and email it back to us.  It will be a downloadable as a zip file.
5. Then once we load the signed signature on our side, we can then coordinate a time with you to update the DNS for your domain to point to the correct places for the new site, and roughly at the same time we will make the final changes on our end to complete this process.
6. this from a provider, such as NameCheap. Domain names (or subdomain names of your main domain) must be unique across the platform and cannot utilize reserved terms (see list below).
   
   

7. DNS & SSL: We will purchase and keep the SSL certificate for your site up to date. We charge a yearly fee of $50.
   
   In your DNS, you will need to add these entries to your zone.

   For a main-level domain:

   Name	Type	Value	TTL
   @ (root/naked domain)	A	165.254.179.34	21600
   www	CNAME	customdomain.photofinale.com	21600

   
   

   For a sub domain of your current main site: 

   Name	Type	Value	TTL
   [photo-vdir].[mainsite.com]	CNAME	customdomain.photofinale.com	21600

   
   

If you have any questions on this please feel free to contact support@photofinale.com.

Reserved Generic Names

Custom domain names may not use these reserved, generic terms as their domain or subdomain.  Plural and gerund forms of these terms are also reserved.

• album
• android
• app
• book
• builder
• buy
• ca
• calendar
• canada
• canvas
• card
• cart
• collection
• checkout
• create
• engine
• enlargement
• event
• gallery
• gift
• help
• html
• ios
• lab
• member
• membership
• mobile
• mug
• my
• myphoto
• myprint
• myproof
• mystudio
• online
• order
• passport
• photo
• portfolio
• portrait
• poster
• print
• pro
• project
• proof
• session
• share
• shop
• sports
• store
• studio
• uk
• us
• web
• wedding
  
  

Photo Finale must pre-approve all domain names and reserves the right to disallow specific names for any reasonIf you have any questions on this please let me know.