Domains and DNS
Visitors should land on one hostname. www and the bare domain are two names until you say otherwise.
example.com and www.example.com are not the same name. Search engines treat them as two until you canonicalize. On Bizzit you want one public URL for the business. Many people CNAME www to slug.bizzit.io and redirect the apex to www, if their DNS host supports that pattern. Some hosts offer ALIAS/ANAME on the apex. Some do not. This page is the choice, not a screenshot tour of every registrar. Custom domain is Pro at $12 a month. Free remains you.bizzit.io. Do not "fix" mail while you pick www. MX stays MX.
Pick one public hostname. Often www is the easy CNAME to slug.bizzit.io, and the apex redirects to www. If your DNS host supports ALIAS on the apex, you can use the bare name instead. Do not run two indexable copies. Custom domain is Pro at $12.
Who this is for
Someone connecting a domain and seeing both the naked name and www in the DNS panel. If that is not you, a different Bizzit guide will fit better, do not force this URL.
The actual answer
One canonical host. Redirect the other. The site files are not duplicated because you had two DNS names, crawlers still see two URLs if both 200. The short version is still the one in the box at the top of this page. The rest of the article exists so you do not have to guess the limits.
Do this in order
Follow the steps. Skip the ones that are not your job. Do not add extra tools as if they were required SKUs.
- Choose www or apex as the public name
- Point that host at slug.bizzit.io using what your DNS host supports
- Redirect the other host to the public one
- Set the same URL in Google Business and printed matter
- Leave MX alone
What not to do
Do not leave both 200 with different content. Do not CNAME the apex if the host forbids it. Do not change nameservers because a blog said to unless you mean to move DNS. That is the usual way a useful page turns into a doorway, a fake comparison, or a brief Cipher cannot honor.
How this shows up on Bizzit
Create is where you brief Cipher. Pricing is public. Tools are public pages that do a job, they are not a second SKU you must buy.
Limits
We do not invent competitor prices, statistics, or features we have not shipped. If a sentence would require a lie, it does not belong here. Empty cells stay empty.
Limits and caveats
Do not leave both 200 with different content. Do not CNAME the apex if the host forbids it. Do not change nameservers because a blog said to unless you mean to move DNS.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Domains and DNS. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
Which does Bizzit require?
We need a host that points at slug.bizzit.io. www is the common CNAME. Apex depends on your DNS host.
Is www old-fashioned?
It is a hostname. It still works. Pretty is not a DNS constraint.
Can I use a shop.example.com host?
If you CNAME that host to slug.bizzit.io and you want that as the public name, yes. Tell people that URL. Do not also index the apex with different copy.
Pro?
Custom domain is $12 a month. The registrar year is separate.