Domains

Put your site on your own web address: connecting a domain, choosing the primary address, and the DNS records involved.

This section covers putting your site on your own web address, like yourbusiness.com, instead of the free address ending in onbrightsite.com.

Start here

To put your domain live, follow Connecting your domain. It walks through both ways to do it, including what to do if your registrar is GoDaddy.

Everything in this section

  • Custom domains: how domains work, choosing your primary address, www or not, and certificates.
  • Connecting your domain: step by step, by adding records at your registrar or by switching to BrightSite DNS.
  • DNS records explained: what each record BrightSite asks for does, and why you should not delete them.

If your domain will not load

See My domain isn't working.

Last updated September 23, 2026