How to Point Your Domain to Tumblr

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Tumblr now is an indeed powerful platform for convenient and at the same time advanced site-building. Also, this is one of the most rapidly developing social media on the web, which includes more than 66 million blogs with over 28 billion posts on them. But the auditory amount is not the only thing that makes this source respectful and recognizable. One more option the one can benefit from using Tumblr services is their great variety of hundreds graphically rich and powerful templates, many of which are free. In addition to it, every tumblr blog is enriched with easy social nets sharing tool, mass post editor and queue posting opportunity that allows keeping your site up-to-date without your direct participation.




Discover more about tumblr powers here. To enjoy tumblr services, you should:


Note that the portrait picture you set will show as the website’s icon. But whatever username you create, you can set your custom domain as your blog URL.

  • Log into your Tumblr account
  • Go to your Tumblr account Settings
  • Edit the Username section by clicking the pencil icon
  • Turn on the Use a custom domain option
  • In the field below put in your domain name
  • You may click Test domain to test the setting or click Save



    • Set DNS records for your domain

    - Log in to your DomainName client area; (ovh for exmpl)- Go to Domains > My Domains menu;
    - Choose the domain you want to point your tumblr blog to and click DNS button:

    Configure the following records if you want to use a bare domain for your website
    • A record for @ pointing to 66.6.44.4 

    • CNAME record for www pointing to domains.tumblr.com
    Once you've done so, you might also want to make sure that there are no conflicting records for the same Host and remove them, if there are any. The records you need to check may be of URL Redirect (Unmasked/Masked/Permanent), A or CNAME record types. 

    Click on the Save all changes button once done. Normally, it takes 30 minutes for newly created records to take effect.

    After your settings have been activated, you need to make sure Tumblr knows about your custom domain so that it can direct visitors to your site. Just go back to your Tumblr account and     click Test domain to test the setting or click Save 

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