A domain is your own web address — like yourbusiness.com — instead of the free growmywebsite.com/site/... address. Here's the honest picture of getting one and what it costs.
What a domain costs
You don't rent a domain from us — you register the name, usually for a small yearly fee (many common endings like .com, .net, .org, and .co are roughly $10–$20 a year). You can check whether the name you want is free, and see its real price, with our free domain search — no signup needed.
Your paid plan includes one free domain
Every paid plan (Starter and up) includes one free domain for your account — and while you stay subscribed, we cover its yearly renewal so you're not billed for it. A few honest details so there are no surprises:
- It's one free domain per account, ever — not one per website, and not one per team member. It belongs to the account owner: the person whose subscription pays for the plan. Team seats and student seats don't each get one.
- It becomes available once you're on a paid plan with a settled payment — not during the free trial.
- It covers up to $20 a year of the real registry price, which covers most common endings.
- If you claim it and then ask for a refund within the guarantee window, the domain's real cost is taken out of that refund — a registered domain can't be handed back, and it stays yours.
Connecting a domain you already own
Already bought a domain elsewhere? You don't need to move it — you just point it at your site. That's one copy-and-paste setting at your domain company, and we check it for you. Full steps are in Connect your own domain, including how to keep your email working.
Managing the domains you own
Once you've connected domains, your domain portfolio in the dashboard lets you:
- Point a domain at a different one of your sites — the old site keeps working at its free /site/... address, so nothing breaks silently.
- Park a domain you own but aren't using yet, so you keep it without it pointing anywhere.
One honesty note on renewals: only your plan's one included free domain is renewed by us while you're subscribed. Any extra domains you own renew on their own terms with your domain company — we never quietly charge a card for those.