Getting Started With 301.st
Sign-up to first live redirect in under 10 minutes if you already have a Cloudflare account. Everything below is what each step actually unlocks — not just what to click.
Five Steps to Production
- Create access. Sign in with email or OAuth and make sure the account you use matches the team that will own operations.
- Connect Cloudflare. This is the trust boundary that unlocks zone discovery, domain sync, and routing workflows.
- Sync domains. Pull real inventory into the domains layer before trying to model downstream logic.
- Create structure. Use projects and sites when you need clear boundaries for brands, offers, teams, or destinations.
- Launch redirects. Treat redirects as the main stable production workflow once the foundation is clean.
Start Here If
- You run 20+ domains across one or more Cloudflare accounts and the per-zone UI is now the bottleneck.
- You manage multiple brands or clients and need isolation between projects without separate Cloudflare accounts.
- You want to evaluate with minimal risk — connect one Cloudflare account, sync a handful of domains, ship a single redirect, decide.
Skip If
- You only have one or two domains — Cloudflare Page Rules cover that case cheaper.
- You are not on Cloudflare. 301.st reads and writes through the Cloudflare API; we do not currently support Route 53 / Vercel / Netlify equivalents.
- You want to migrate DNS away from Cloudflare. That is the opposite direction.
What Is Built
- Auth: email + password, OAuth (Google / GitHub / Yandex), multi-method sign-in management.
- Integrations: Cloudflare (token-based, multiple accounts), Namecheap, NameSilo, VirusTotal.
- Domains: filterable table, per-domain inspector, bulk re-sync / block / assign-to-project / attach-to-site, subdomain create + delete.
- Routing: redirects with T1–T7 templates and version-aware bulk sync; TDS Smart Shield (geo/device/bot) and SmartLink (UTM/click-ID) rules deployed to Cloudflare Workers.
- Attribution: postback sources with per-event URLs, live conversions dashboard, drop-in support for 1Win-class operators and traditional networks. Self-service billing and plan management.
What Catches People Out
- First Cloudflare sync on a fresh integration with many zones can take a couple of minutes — be patient on the initial run; subsequent syncs are fast.
- Stripe is unavailable in the RU region (blocked at the network level); the Russian deploy at 301.ru uses Cryptomus and YooKassa instead.
- TDS rules deploy to a Cloudflare Worker on your acceptor domain — Free plan Worker request quotas apply to your traffic. Workers Paid is recommended once volume scales.
FAQ
Do I need Cloudflare?
Yes. 301.st operates on top of Cloudflare zones — redirects and TDS rules are deployed there. Other DNS providers are not currently supported.
Can I skip projects and sites?
Yes — they are optional. You can create redirects directly against synced domains. Add projects/sites later when you need isolation between brands, clients, or environments.
What is the difference between Redirects and TDS?
Redirects are unconditional URL → URL rules — what Page Rules and Bulk Redirects do, plus versioning and bulk apply across zones. TDS adds conditional routing: Smart Shield filters by request signals (geo, device, bot detection); SmartLink routes by URL parameters (utm_source, fbclid, gclid, sub-IDs). Start with Redirects; add TDS when a use case actually needs the conditions.