5 months ago
My project ID is f7aebe63-670a-4d3f-8838-c077e0b7ce52
I enabled a custom domain. I configured everything correctly at namecheap and confirmed using the dig command:
dig TXT _railway-verify.dyehype.com
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> TXT _railway-verify.dyehype.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38977
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_railway-verify.dyehype.com. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
_railway-verify.dyehype.com. 1799 IN TXT "railway-verify=fbd3b3f56372b5c3aebaac5401c99aa9ff2bf8710cd5079c114ce61caf8368b0"
;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.178.1#53(192.168.178.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 08 12:54:48 CET 2026
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148
However, Railway is stuck at the "Validating domain ownership" state, and when I visit my custom domain, it says "The website is not available".
I already tried to delete the custom domain and re-add it.
Please help!
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5 months ago
You added the record for dehype.com.
For www.dehype.com, you need to add one more domain in railway. It would give you a CNAME records which you need to add in namecheap
Note - website.come & www.website.com are considered as separate domains
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5 months ago
Can you please share some ss showing the CNAME and the value provided by railway & where you added in namecheap?
5 months ago
I ran into this as well. Namecheap specifically needs a slightly different formatted TXT field. instead of _railway-verify.dyehype.com, put in _railway-verify . namecheap auto-appends the domain name.
5 months ago
If we use Namecheap you can use the way that @snugglepilot mentioned above. For me, to avoid this issue, I set up cloudflare with namecheap first by adding cloudflare dns to namecheap, and then using one-click DNS setup with cloudflare
I found this way is very simple and you don't have to worry any mistake when you setup with this.
Hope railway can have one-click DNS setup to namecheap in the future.
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5 months ago
Thanks for all the answers. I already changed from _railway-verify.dyehype.com to only _railway-verify, then the status changed to "Validating domain ownership", can't remember what it was before.
But also railway by now shows only _railway-verify.
and i don't have the cloudflare connect button.
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5 months ago
By now it shows a green checkmark for the TXT record as well. But on https://www.dyehype.com browser still shows "The website is not available"
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5 months ago
You added the record for dehype.com.
For www.dehype.com, you need to add one more domain in railway. It would give you a CNAME records which you need to add in namecheap
Note - website.come & www.website.com are considered as separate domains
heimdall
You added the record for [dehype.com](http://dehype.com). For www.dehype.com, you need to add one more domain in railway. It would give you a CNAME records which you need to add in namecheap Note - website.come & [www.website.com](http://www.website.com) are considered as separate domains
5 months ago
Thanks a lot! Works now (:
Status changed to Solved brody • 5 months ago