https://brisberg.dev/blog/Recent content in Blog on Brandon RisbergHugoen-usSat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://brisberg.dev/blog/hosting-a-custom-domain-on-github-pages/Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://brisberg.dev/blog/hosting-a-custom-domain-on-github-pages/<p>A website hosted on GitHub Pages is natively available at <code>https://&lt;user&gt;.github.io/&lt;repo&gt;</code>, but you can configure a custom domain for it.</p> <p>There are four pieces to it:</p> <ul> <li>Purchase a domain from a registrar</li> <li>Point the registrar&rsquo;s DNS records at GitHub Pages</li> <li>Tell GitHub which host to expect, with a <code>CNAME</code> file in the published output</li> <li>Let GitHub provision a TLS certificate for it</li> </ul> <h2 id="buying-a-domain">Buying a domain</h2> <p>I originally bought mine in 2020 from Google Domains, which had the best selection and lowest prices at the time. Google had recently launched several of their own top-level domains — <code>.page</code>, <code>.dev</code>, <code>.studio</code>, <code>.tech</code>, <code>.design</code> — and <code>.dev</code> fit a developer&rsquo;s web presence best.</p>