On Faculty Websites it is possible to use a custom UCI domain for your site, such as sitename.bio.uci.edu instead of the default address you get when you sign up, like faculty.sites.uci.edu/sitename/. We use Domain Mapping to map your custom domain to your individual site. The custom domain is an alias to the site. Your original domain will still work and will be what you see when you are logged in.
Requirements
- The domain requestor must be a faculty or staff member at UCI.
- All custom domains must be sub-domains or nested sub-domains of uci.edu. We cannot map to domains outside of UCI like .com, .org, etc.
- If the website belongs to a specific school, it should be a sub-domain of that school, for example, sitename.bio.uci.edu
- Only one domain will be allocated for each site. We cannot accommodate multiple custom domains.
- The website must be set up with public visibility. Custom domains do not work for private or password-protected sites.
- New Top-level subdomains like ‘sitename.uci.edu’ require approval from a campus committee and have strict guidelines which will significantly lengthen the time frame. See the UCI Subdomain Guidelines for more information and to request a top-level subdomain. If you don’t need a top-level subdomain, consider a nested subdomain as these generally don’t require approval and will speed up the process.
- Domains in ‘hs.uci.edu’ and ‘health.uci.edu’. – OIT does not manage changes to these domains. If you are requesting a subdomain within these domains, we can give you the needed information, but you will have to work with HS IT directly to get the DNS records updated. We can then help you activate the domain.
- Existing Domains – If you are moving your current website and want to keep your domain, this move will take over the whole domain. If you have applications or other content that is not moving over, we do not recommend this method. We will also need to carefully schedule the move after hours to make sure the site is not impacted by any downtime as DNS and SSL are updated.
- It can take 5 – 7 business days to complete the process as we need to request the DNS change which has a 5-workday turnaround time. There will be a short time (approximately one hour) when the SSL certificate will not work. For new domains, this is not an issue, but if you are transferring an existing domain we will try to schedule this after hours to cause less disruption.