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How to connect your domain to Bocadium

Add your domain in Bocadium, copy the A, CNAME and TXT records into your DNS provider and verify the connection to enable HTTPS.

1. Add the domain in Bocadium

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Open your business backend and go to “Custom domain”.
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Enter only the domain, for example restaurante.uy, without https:// or paths.
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Bocadium will show the exact DNS records you need to create for that domain.

2. Configure DNS records

In the DNS panel where your domain is managed, create exactly the records shown by Bocadium. The normal setup is an A record for the root domain, a CNAME for www and a unique TXT record to verify domain control.

Always use the values displayed in your Bocadium screen. Do not copy records from another restaurant because the verification TXT is unique.

3. Wait for propagation and verify

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DNS changes can take from a few minutes to several hours depending on the provider and TTL.
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Return to Bocadium and press “Verify”.
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Bocadium checks routing and the ownership TXT. When both are correct, it registers the domain for automatic HTTPS.
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When the status is Active, test the domain with and without www.

What Bocadium configures automatically for SEO

Your custom domain publishes its own robots.txt and sitemap.xml with the venue and its public dishes.
It also publishes venue-only llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for AI assistants and crawlers, without mixing in other marketplace venues.
The primary domain is used as the canonical URL for the venue and each dish, including structured data and social cards.
Equivalent Bocadium marketplace URLs are removed from the global sitemap to avoid duplicate content.
www and any secondary domain for the same business redirect to the primary domain. Dishes use clean URLs such as /plato/dish-name.
Menu, reservation and checkout keep the restaurant domain and remain out of the search index when they are transactional screens.

You do not need to upload a sitemap or edit robots.txt manually: Bocadium generates them from the primary domain and published content.

You do not need to delegate the whole domain

Using a custom domain with Bocadium does not require transferring ownership or necessarily changing nameservers. The business can keep the domain with its registrar and simply add the DNS records shown.

If you already use domain email

Do not delete existing MX, SPF, DKIM or DMARC records.
Only change or add the web records shown by Bocadium.
If in doubt, take a screenshot of the DNS zone before changing it.

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