Your domain on the link, not ours
docs.yourcompany.com/proposal reads like your company sent it. Anything else reads like a tool sent it on your behalf.
Q3 Growth & Allocation Overview
The URL is the first thing they see
A link arrives before the document does. It sits in an email, a Slack message, a text — and it's the first signal a recipient gets about whether this is a serious piece of work.
An unfamiliar third-party domain does two unhelpful things at once. It looks like a marketing tool rather than your company, and in a security-conscious organisation it looks like something not to click at all. Enterprise buyers hover over links before opening them.
For agencies and consultancies the problem is sharper: you're advertising which tools you use to the client paying you to be the expert.
What a custom domain changes
The URL
Links come from your subdomain. docs.yourcompany.com, share.yourcompany.com, whatever fits.
The viewer
Your logo and colours on the document viewer, so the page the recipient lands on matches the domain that got them there.
The link preview
When the link is pasted into Slack, LinkedIn or a message, the [preview card](/social-thumbnail) carries your branding rather than a generic file icon.
Deliverability and trust
Links from a domain the recipient already recognises get clicked. Links from an unknown one get hovered over, forwarded to IT, or ignored.
Setup
docs., share. or files. are the usual picks.One record. No server, no certificate to renew, no ongoing maintenance.
Who this matters most for
Frequently asked questions
docs.yourcompany.com and all your links use it.Send links that look like they came from you.
One DNS record, and every link carries your brand.