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# How to create Branded domain in Link Management?
If you want the short link included in marketing message has your brand domain, please follow below instructions.
## Step 1: Open Link Management app
In CDP 365, Go to **Content** and choose **Short Link**
## Step 2: Locate Domain Management tab
In the Data table, choose **Default Internal Vendor Account**
## Step 3: Create a new Branded Domain
In Domain Management tab, click on button  and follow these steps:
1. In the pop up **Add a domain you own**, input your domain on domain textbox.
2. Tick on checkbox “*I understand that this domain will not be used for anything else except for Antsomi Shortlink*”.
3. Click on **Create**.
## Step 4: Add CNAME for your branded domain.
To add A Canonical Name record (a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that maps one domain name to another), follow below steps:
1. Sign in to your domain host
2. Go to DNS setting
3. Go to your domain’s DNS records
4. Add a record to your DNS settings, selecting **CNAME** as the record type.
5. Copy the information in column **Domain** in pop up and paste into the **Label/Host field**.
6. Copy the information in column **Canonical Name** and paste into the **Destination/Target field**
7. Save your record
8. In the pop up **Branded Domain**, click **Check Now** to check if the CNAME has been successfully added to the DNS settings.
## Step 5: Set up an SSL certificate
There are 2 ways to set up SSL certificate for your branded domain:
1. Use Antsomi SSL certificate: If you choose this option, you will use Antsomi SSL certificate for your branded domain.
2. Upload certificate: If you choose this option, you must upload a certificate for your branded domain. You must input or upload the following information for SSL Certification: **Primary Key, Certificate, CA Root Chain**.
## Step 6: Save your branded domain
After filling all the information, click  to complete create branded name
## EXTENSION
To add short links to your message in a Journey, please follow below instructions:
### Step 1: Open your Customer Journey
### Step 2: Choose destination node
### Step 3: In Compose step, click on the Personalization icon, then choose "Add short link" option
### Step 4: Insert the link you want to be shortened in the pop-up, then click Insert
The link will be immediately shortened and appear in the blue tag (Receiver will see this link), you could click **Preview** to see the original link.
**NOTE**: Even though the link created here is having ants.ly domain, but if your branded domain was turned on, the link in the message would have your brand domain.
For example:
You have marked the domain "antsomi.com" as Primary.
* The original link:
* The shortened link:
So when the message was sent out, even though the tag was "ants.y/12543", the link in the message would be the shortened link:
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