{"id":4862,"date":"2026-03-30T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:35:28","slug":"why-branded-link-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/why-branded-link-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my Branded Link Not Working?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">A branded link may not work due to one of the following reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Your domain\/subdomain was not set up properly with the correct DNS settings (applicable to BYO Domain\/Subdomain only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Your domain is still propagating. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/dns-propagation\">Domain propagation<\/a> or any changes made to domains DNS records, may take a while to propagate which depends on the TTL (time to live) of the prior domain\u2019s records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">The domain was purchased through TinyURL and expired due to non-renewal or payment failure during renewal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A branded link may not work due to one of the following reasons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help","tag-branded-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}