Put your own name on it.

What a domain actually needs

Two things have to agree. Your host has to know it should answer for yourname.com, and the company you bought the name from has to point it at your host. The second half is a DNS record: a short line in a panel you have probably not opened before, on a website you may not remember using.

The app finds the panel for you

It does not ask you who your registrar is, because that is the question people cannot answer. It looks the domain up, works out who runs its DNS, and opens that company's own page — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, whoever it is.

It shows the exact records

Not "add an A record pointing to your host". The actual values, ready to copy, for the host this project is on. If the host also wants proof that the domain is yours, that check appears in the same list, with its own value.

And then it waits, so you do not have to

DNS changes take time to spread — usually minutes, sometimes a few hours. The app keeps checking in the background and tells you when the name answers. There is no button to sit and press, and no need to guess whether you got it wrong or it is just slow.

Buying a name from inside the app

For a project on Vercel, you can search for a name and buy it without leaving the window. It is your Vercel account and your card, and a name bought there is already pointing at the right place — no records to copy at all.

What about www?

Both hosts answer for the bare name and the www. version, and send visitors to whichever one you chose as the real address. You do not have to pick a side to be safe: the other one keeps working and redirects.

Does it get HTTPS?

Yes, and you do nothing. Netlify and Vercel each issue a certificate for a domain once it points at them, and renew it on their own. The padlock usually appears within a few minutes of the records taking effect.

Step by step

1. Publish the project first, so there is something for the name to point at.
2. Open the Domain tab and type the name you own.
3. The app tells your host about it and shows the records to add.
4. Press the link to your registrar's page and copy the values across.
5. Go and do something else. The app says when it is live.

If it does not come up

The usual reasons are a record typed into the wrong field, a leftover record from a previous host still pointing somewhere else, or an hour that has not passed yet. The app shows what it can see for each record, so the difference between "wrong" and "not yet" is visible instead of guessed at.