How to Set Up a Play Domain for Your Minecraft Server

A custom Minecraft server domain is an important feature of any professional Minecraft server. You can also set up a separate subdomain for players using Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This guide explains step by step how to configure your domain’s DNS settings using either ConsulHosting or Cloudflare.

Note Don’t have a domain name yet? Register a domain name before following this guide.

Note Is your domain name not registered with ConsulHosting? Transfer your domain name or contact the company where your domain is registered for instructions.

Setting up a Minecraft server domain using ConsulHosting

1. Log in to the game panel and go to your Minecraft server.
2. Open the Ports page.
3. Copy the IP and Port from the row with the Primary status. You will need these details later.
4. Log in to the client panel.
5. Go to DNS on the Domains page.
6. Select the domain for which you want to configure a Minecraft server domain.
7. Click Add record and select SRV.
8. Enter the following details:

Tip You can replace play in the name with, for example, mc to use a server address such as mc.example.com. If you omit play, you can use the domain without a prefix, such as example.com, as the server address.

9. Click Create and wait for the new (sub)domain to start working. This may take up to one hour.

Setting up a Minecraft server domain using Cloudflare

1. Log in to the game panel and go to your Minecraft server.
2. Open the Ports page.
3. Copy the IP and Port from the row with the Primary status. You will need these details later.
4. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard.
5. Select the domain for which you want to configure a Minecraft server domain.
6. Go to DNS and open Records.
7. Click Add record and enter the following details:

Tip You can replace play in the name with, for example, mc to use a server address such as mc.example.com. If you omit play, you can use the domain without a prefix, such as example.com, as the server address.

8. Click Save and wait for the new (sub)domain to start working. This may take up to one hour.

Setting up a Bedrock subdomain using ConsulHosting

1. Log in to the client panel.
2. Go to DNS on the Domains page.
3. Select the domain for which you want to configure a Bedrock subdomain.
4. Click Add record and select CNAME.
5. Under Name, enter the name of your Bedrock subdomain. For example, enter bedrock to create the server address bedrock.example.com.
6. Leave the TTL set to 1 hour and enter your current server address under Hostname. You can find this address in the game panel.
7. Click Create and wait for the new subdomain to start working. This may take up to one hour.

Players can join the Minecraft server using the subdomain and its corresponding port.

Setting up a Bedrock subdomain using Cloudflare

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard.
2. Select the domain for which you want to configure a Bedrock subdomain.
3. Go to DNS and open Records.
4. Click Add record.
5. Select CNAME under Type.
6. Under Name, enter the name of your Bedrock subdomain. For example, enter bedrock to create the server address bedrock.example.com.
7. Under Target, enter your current server address. You can find this address in the game panel.
8. Set Proxy status to DNS only and leave the TTL set to Auto.
9. Click Save and wait for the new subdomain to start working. This may take up to one hour.

Players can join the Minecraft server using the subdomain and its corresponding port.