Rename your server and set a custom address

The name on your dashboard is a label for you and your team. Players see a separate name in the server list and join with an address, and changing one leaves the other two alone.

Rename your server in the panel

The Server name card on the Server Details tab sets the label on your dashboard card, in the panel's left rail and in the browser tab. Server Details is the second item in the left rail's Essentials group, or in the section menu on a phone.

1. Open Server Details. The Server name card at the top holds the current name in a box.
2. Type the new name, up to 30 characters.
3. Press Update server name, or Enter. A Server name updated message shows once it's saved, and Audit Logs records the old and new names.

Claim a free custom address

The Server address card gives your server an address: a name you pick, followed by the domain the card shows. Players can type it instead of the raw IP. It sits under Address in Settings: on the dashboard, press the wrench button (Server settings) on your server's card, or open Settings in the More group of the panel's left rail.

1. Type a name: 3 to 30 lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, not starting or ending with a hyphen.
2. Wait for the line under the box to say the address is available. A taken, reserved or blocked name shows the reason instead.
3. Press Claim. The card now shows your full address with Change and Release buttons. Allow a few minutes before you share it.

Change or release the address

To change it:

1. Press Change and type the new name.
2. Press Save. The new address goes live before the old one is switched off.

To release it, press Release and confirm. Players go back to joining with the raw IP.

Do players need the port?

Every address points at your server's IP, but only a Minecraft one carries the port too.

• Minecraft: Java Edition - players type the address on its own (Join your Minecraft server (and fix errors)). Bedrock players use the Crossplay tab's details.
• Rust, ARK, Palworld and Garry's Mod - players type the address, a colon, then the port. Copy the whole line from Server address in the left rail, not the dashboard's IP line, which leaves the port off. If a join box rejects the address, use the numeric IP and port on the Primary row under Network ports in Settings.
• Valheim - with crossplay on, players use the join code instead. With it off, it works like Rust. Valheim server: join code, crossplay, mods covers both.
• Terraria - yes, but typed separately: on Join via IP players type the address without the port, then the port on the next screen. Terraria server: tModLoader, tShock and joining by IP walks through it.

Change the server name in the game's server list

Rust, ARK, Palworld and Valheim keep the name in Startup:

1. Open Startup in the More group.
2. Type the new name on the Server Name card and press its Save button.
3. Restart the server. The game reads the name only when it starts.

Game by game:

• Minecraft - players name the server themselves when adding it. Under that name they see the Server list message (motd in server.properties): change it in the Config Editor, World section, press Save changes and restart. How to manage your server files covers editing the file by hand.
• Rust - Server Name (HOSTNAME). A server.hostname line in server.cfg overrides it, so leave that line out. See Rust server setup: connect, admin and wipes.
• ARK: Survival Evolved - Server Name (SESSION_NAME).
• Palworld - Server Name (SERVER_NAME). The panel rewrites ServerName in PalWorldSettings.ini on every boot, so file-only edits don't last. See Palworld server settings and best presets.
• Valheim - Server Name (SERVER_NAME). The server won't start if the name contains the join password.
• Garry's Mod - the hostname line in garrysmod/cfg/server.cfg, edited in the File Manager with the server stopped. See GMod server: connect, Workshop, gamemodes.