Countdown Timers on Your Own Domain
With the Business plan, your timers are served from your own domain — e.g. img.yourbrand.com — with automatic SSL for every connected domain. Better inbox deliverability, stronger brand trust, and no third-party URLs in your campaigns.
What Is a Custom Domain for Timers?
By default, your countdown images are served from our domain. With a custom domain, they are served from a subdomain you own — so the timer in your email or on your website loads from img.yourbrand.com instead. The result is a true white-label countdown timer: a fully branded countdown timer where every URL matches the domain your emails are sent from.
Connecting one takes a single CNAME record at your DNS provider. Once verified, every embed code uses your branded URL, and SSL is issued and renewed for you automatically.
- Branded URLs. Timer image and click URLs match the domain your emails are sent from.
- Automatic SSL. Certificates for connected domains are provisioned and auto-renewed — nothing to buy or install.
- Deliverability. Consistent domains read as trustworthy to inbox providers, helping campaigns land in the inbox.
Without a custom domain
app.countdownbuilder.com/countdowns/<timer-id>.gif
The timer URL points at a third-party domain — it reads like a tracker and makes the campaign look unbranded.
With a custom domain
img.yourbrand.com/countdowns/<timer-id>.gif
A white-label timer URL on your own subdomain, served over HTTPS with no third-party domain in sight.
Custom domains are included with the Business plan — alongside everything in the Combo Pack.
White-Label by Design
Branded Timer URLs
Timers serve from img.yourbrand.com — your domain in every image URL, nothing that looks like a third-party tracker.
Automatic SSL
SSL certificates are provisioned and renewed for every connected domain automatically. No certs to buy or install.
Better Deliverability
Images on a domain that matches your sender domain read as consistent and trustworthy to inbox providers.
Zero Maintenance
One CNAME record connects your domain. We handle serving, scaling, and certificate renewals from there.
Why Domain Consistency Affects Inbox Placement
Inbox providers like Gmail and Apple Mail evaluate every remote image URL in your campaign. When a countdown timer loads from a domain unrelated to your sender domain, it looks like a third-party tracker — one more signal that can nudge a campaign toward the spam folder, and sometimes the reason email images do not load at all in strict clients.
Serving the same branded countdown timer from your own subdomain keeps your campaign consistent end to end: one domain, one brand, images that render reliably. Email images face one more hurdle in Apple Mail — see how our timers hold up under Mail Privacy Protection.
Perfect For
Ecommerce & retail
Sale and launch timers served from your store’s own domain keep the buying journey on-brand.
Agencies & freelancers
Client campaigns stay fully white-label — no countdownbuilder.com in any embed URL.
High-volume senders
Consistent image domains help your emails land in the inbox when you’re sending at scale.
Brand-sensitive comms
Banking, SaaS, and enterprise campaigns where every URL must match the company domain.
How It Works
Add one DNS record
A single CNAME points your subdomain at our serving infrastructure. No code, no migration.
One-click verification
Click Verify and we check the DNS record for you — usually verified within minutes.
SSL provisioned
A certificate is issued and auto-renewed for the connected domain, so timers load securely.
Timers serve from your domain
Copy embed codes as usual — the image and click URLs now use your branded subdomain.
Powerful, Fully Branded
Simple 3-Step Setup
Add a CNAME record
At your DNS provider, point a subdomain (e.g. img) to direct.countdownbuilder.com.
Verify your domain
Click Verify in your dashboard and we check the record — your domain is usually marked as verified within minutes.
Use your branded URLs
Your timer embed codes now serve from img.yourbrand.com with SSL handled for you.
Custom Domain FAQs
Your Domain. Your Timers.
Start free and upgrade to Business when you are ready to serve countdown timers from your own domain.
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