Redirect the Tuqo address to your own domain
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The short answer: turn off the Tuqo address with its toggle on the Domains tab
and leave it set to redirect. Then name.tuqo.app starts returning a 301 to
your domain with the path preserved, and the site is served only on your own address.
One site, all addresses at once
A site is served on every enabled address at the same time: its Tuqo addresses
(name.tuqo.app, and on paid plans also name.tuqo.ru and name.tuqo.dev) plus every
verified custom domain. There is no “main” entry point at the
serving level. All of them lead to the same content, and each has its own toggle.
That helps when a site has several domains: mysite.com, mysite.net and mysite.ru can
all be enabled at once and serve the same content. The limit is the number of enabled
domains on your plan: 10 on Start, 20 on Pro, unlimited from Business (see
pricing).
So that search engines merge identical pages across several Tuqo addresses, pages of a
non-primary address are served with a Link: rel="canonical" header pointing to the same
path on the primary address. The header is left out when the site sets its own
<link rel="canonical"> in <head>, and when the site has a custom domain enabled: its
main address is the domain, so put the canonical to it in your HTML.
The main address is the one the panel shows on the site card and puts into links, including the access emails of a gated site: the main Tuqo address (with several zones you pick it with Make main), or, when the Tuqo addresses are off, the first enabled custom domain. So “make my domain the main one” means “turn off the Tuqo addresses”. Every kind of address and its rules: Addresses and domains.
How to redirect the Tuqo address
- Open the site page → the Domains tab.
- Make sure your domain is verified and enabled: it reads Verified · on. If not yet, start with attaching the domain.
- Switch off the toggle of the address in the Addresses on Tuqo block, for each enabled zone.
- An Address off → line appears under the address, with a choice of behavior.
The list has three options:
- redirect to any working address: Tuqo picks an enabled address of the site itself. Handy when there are several domains and you don’t want to tie the redirect to one of them;
- redirect to mysite.com: a specific address from the list. If that address is later turned off, the redirect doesn’t break: a target is picked automatically;
- show “temporarily unavailable”: instead of a redirect, the visitor sees a placeholder page, in the site’s language. This means “the address is no longer ours”, not “we moved”.
The redirect uses code 301 and keeps the path and query string: a
visit to name.tuqo.app/blog/post?utm_source=newsletter goes to
mysite.com/blog/post?utm_source=newsletter. The redirect is permanent (301), and browsers
remember it for an hour: if you turn the address back on, the redirect disappears for your
visitors within an hour. For search engines a 301 signals a move: the old address in search
results is replaced by the new one over time. To speed the move up:
- Google: put a
<link rel="canonical">on each page of your domain pointing to its own URL on the domain, and submit a sitemap with the domain’s URLs in Search Console. - Yandex: use its Site move tool (Webmaster → Indexing → Site move). It ignores a canonical pointing to another domain or subdomain, so canonical alone won’t merge the addresses there; the redirect is what does it.
What you can’t do
Turn off the last enabled entry point. If the site has one address left, its toggle won’t switch off: the site would become unreachable, and there is a separate switch for the site itself. Enable a second address first, then turn off the first.
Set a redirect on an enabled address. The setting only appears on a disabled address: an enabled address serves the site, not a redirect. The logic is simple: “disabled” answers “do we serve from here”, and “redirect” answers “what do we show to people who still come here”.
Point the redirect at a disabled address. The target is always a working address, so there are no redirect chains or loops.
The reverse case: pausing a domain
It works the same way in reverse. Switch off the toggle on a custom domain: the site stays on its Tuqo address, and the domain redirects to it. Useful when the domain is temporarily unpaid or you’re moving it between sites: ownership verification is kept, and you bring the domain back with the same toggle, without verifying it again.
Non-payment works the same way: when a payment is overdue, domains are not deleted but switched off, and after payment you turn them back on with the toggle. Enabling a domain, like attaching one, needs a paid plan or the Custom domain add-on (149 ₽/mo).
FAQ
Can two domains serve one site without a redirect?
Yes, that is the default: enable both and both serve the site. You only need a redirect when you want an address to stay alive but lead elsewhere.
Will www work by itself if I attached mysite.com?
No: www.mysite.com is a separate name. Add it as a separate domain with its own DNS
records and enable it, and both addresses will serve the site. To keep only one variant,
turn off the other and set it to redirect to the one you want.
Does this setting move with the site?
Yes. The Tuqo addresses, the domains and their state travel with the site, both when you move it to another project of yours and when you hand it over to a client. A domain moved to another site inside a project arrives disabled; turn it on manually.
What do visitors see if I turn off the whole site?
A “temporarily unavailable” page on every address: the site switch overrides the address toggles. No redirect happens in that case, since there is nowhere to send people.