Using your own domain
Using your own domain
Your Studio site gets a Sitekick address when it publishes. When you are ready, you can use a domain you already own instead.
Before you start
Have the account where you bought the domain — your registrar — handy. You (or whoever manages the domain) will need to make a small change there so the domain points to your Studio site.
How it works
Connecting a domain follows the same pattern everywhere:
- You tell Studio which domain you want to use.
- Studio asks you to verify that you control it.
- You update the domain's DNS settings at your registrar.
- Studio confirms the connection, and the domain serves your site.
DNS changes can take anywhere from minutes to a couple of days to take effect. That is normal — the time it takes is set by the wider DNS system, not by Studio.
Things to know
- Your site stays live during the switch. The Sitekick address keeps working until your domain takes over.
- You keep ownership of the domain. Studio points it at your site; it never takes the domain away from your registrar.
- Changes come from your registrar. Sitekick will never ask you to transfer a domain or buy one through us.
Help with domains
If a domain check keeps failing, the most common causes are DNS records that conflict with each other, or a typo in the record Studio asked you to create. Double-check what you entered at the registrar before anything else.
