diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml
index 0a9be16..dcebe37 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build dist/
         run: make dist
 
+      - name: Set custom domain (persists across deploys)
+        run: echo 'annotated.thedeadly.app' > dist/CNAME
+
       - name: Configure Pages
         uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5709942..ae5ea0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ A self-contained, offline, **faithful preservation** of David Dodd's
 (`artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/`), recovered from the Internet Archive and
 made fully browsable on its own, with the period HTML preserved byte-for-byte.
 
-**Live site: https://ds17f.github.io/annotatedDead/**
+**Live site: https://annotated.thedeadly.app/**
 
 > The original site is frozen/offline. This project rebuilds it from a single
 > archive.org snapshot (timestamp `20230806233010`) and fixes the links so it