Decode Railway custom domain statuses from validating ownership to setup complete

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Documented steps

  1. After adding a custom domain and its DNS records, watch the status Railway reports
  2. validating ownership means Railway is confirming the CNAME and TXT records are in place
  3. issuing TLS certificate means Railway is requesting the Let's Encrypt certificate through the ACME DNS-01 challenge
  4. setup complete means the certificate is applied and HTTPS works

Known gotchas

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