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Custom domains

Every site gets a free name.botbuilt.site address. A paid site can serve on your own domain instead — like yourbrand.com or www.yourbrand.com — with HTTPS set up automatically.

Bring one, or buy one here

Two ways to get a branded address. If you already own the name, connect it (below). If you don't, ask the Agent — “is yourbrand.com available?” — and it quotes the price and can register it for you in the chat.

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One yearly price, domain plus hosting. The quote covers the domain itself and a discounted site plan, so a bought domain also makes that site a paid site — no separate subscription. Some endings (like .ai) are sold in two-year terms, and the Agent says so before you pay.
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The domain is yours. You are the registered owner — we're listed only as the technical contact, with WHOIS privacy on. Your address and phone come from checkout, never from the chat.
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One email you must click. Amazon Registrar emails you to verify your contact details. That's an ICANN rule: if it isn't clicked within 15 days, the domain is suspended — so click it.
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You can take it with you. ICANN locks every new domain against transfer for 60 days. After that, ask us and we'll unlock it and hand you the authorization code for your new registrar.
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Refunds. If anything stops us completing the registration, you're refunded in full and the subscription is canceled automatically. Once a domain IS registered it can't be refunded — registries don't take them back — but it stays yours for the term you paid for. Cancel any time and it simply runs to its expiry date.

Connecting a domain you already own

You don't touch any settings pages here — you ask the Agent, and it walks you through one DNS change at your registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Google Domains, and the like).

01Ask to connect it. Tell the Agent “use my domain yourbrand.com.” It checks the name and gives you the exact DNS record to add.
02Add one DNS record. At your domain registrar, add the record it gives you (a CNAME for a subdomain like www, or an ALIAS/ANAME at the root). Copy-and-paste — no other settings.
03It goes live automatically. Once DNS points at us, your domain connects and a certificate is issued for you. HTTPS is on from the first request — nothing to configure.
Apex vs. subdomain

A subdomain such as www.yourbrand.com works at essentially every registrar via a CNAME. A bare root domain (yourbrand.com) needs a registrar that supports ALIAS/ANAME or CNAME-flattening (most modern ones do). If yours doesn't, the Agent will suggest using www as your main address and forwarding the root to it. It tells you exactly which record to use for your domain.

Good to know

DNS can take a little while. Changes usually propagate in minutes but can take longer depending on your registrar. The Agent keeps checking and confirms when it's live.
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HTTPS is automatic. A managed certificate is issued and renewed for you — no keys, no renewals to track.
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Your .botbuilt.site address keeps working. Existing links don't break when you add a custom domain.
Bring your domain

Included with every paid site — see what's included.