Verify your domain
Updated July 2026 · 1 min read
A few quick checks confirm your custom domain is live and serving your container — what Active means, how to test the URL, and where to look if it isn't working yet.
Confirm the status
Open your container's Domains tab. When the domain shows Active, TagVolt has already verified both halves for you: DNS resolves to your container and the SSL certificate is installed.
Test the URL in a browser
- Open https://tags.yourstore.com (your own subdomain) in a new tab.
- Check the padlock: the connection should be secure, with a certificate issued for your subdomain and no warnings.
- Ignore the page content — a tagging endpoint isn't a website, so a plain or empty response is normal.
Watch a real event arrive
The strongest proof is a live request:
- Open the container's Preview mode.
- Load your website in another tab and click around.
- Requests should appear in the debugger — now arriving through your custom domain.
See Preview and debug mode for how to read what arrives.
Point your tags at the new URL
If your web Google Tag Manager container or platform tags still send events to the container's previous TagVolt URL, update the server container URL to your subdomain so production traffic actually benefits from the first-party setup. The GA4 server-side guide shows where that URL lives.
Domain still Pending instead of Active? That's usually DNS propagation — minutes in most cases, up to 48 hours at worst. If it won't clear, walk through Domain stuck on Pending.