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I have a domain registered at WordPress, let's say it's example.com.

I have my webpage hosted with GitHub pages and was able to add a CNAME record in the WordPress DNS settings pointing to said github.io page. However, this CNAME record is only for the subdomain wwww.example.com, as I can't simply take the apex domain example.com.

Now I can access my website with www.example.com, but example.com leads to the WordPress WIP page.

Is there any way to make the apex domain also lead to my github.io page?

I read https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site and tried to add AAAA records, but if I don't give any subdomain, WordPress always puts @ there.

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  • When you say "at WordPress" do you mean that you are using wordpress.com as your domain registrar?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Jan 28 at 10:18
  • yes, that's what I meant
    – Libavius
    Jan 28 at 10:20

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WordPress always puts @ there

That is exactly what you want. In DNS records @ represents the domain apex (ie. no subdomain).

You will want to follow GitHub's instructions for creating A and AAAA records to get your domain apex to work. The A records are more important than the AAAA records. AAAA records are for IPv6 which most people are not using yet. A records are for IPv4 which will be used by the vast majority of users reaching your site.

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  • thanks for the clarification! I only added the AAAA records, since I thought it was an either/or thing. Now it works.
    – Libavius
    Jan 28 at 10:44

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