Change your website or app to a new domain

Before you start

• Buy the new domain first (any registrar: GoDaddy, Hostinger, BigRock, Namecheap…)
• Your plan, files, databases and price stay the same — only the address changes

Change it

Open Domains, find the site, enter the new domain under Change domain name and confirm by typing the current domain. It takes under a minute.

What moves with it

• Files and folders (the folder is renamed to the new domain)
• www.newdomain — added automatically
• Apps: start command, environment variables and settings; the app restarts on the new address
• WordPress: the site address and links in your pages and posts
• Git deploys, releases and the deploy key
• Cron jobs that use the folder path

Point the new domain here

At the company that runs the new domain's DNS add:

• Type A, name @, value = our IP (shown on Domains)
• Type A, name www, value = our IP
• Delete any other A or AAAA records for @ and www (parking pages)
• Using Cloudflare? Proxied is fine; set SSL/TLS to Full (strict) once the certificate is issued

SSL

The free certificate for the new domain is issued automatically within about 30 minutes of the DNS pointing here (Domains → Check and issue now to try at once). The old domain stops working on this site straight away.

Other things to update

• Google Search Console: add the new domain and use Change of address
• Your app's own settings that contain the old address (API URLs, OAuth / Google login redirect URLs, payment gateway webhooks such as Razorpay, CORS lists, .env values like APP_URL or NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL)
• Email: mailboxes @olddomain stay as they are. For email @newdomain, add the mail domain on the Email page and its DNS records
• Optional: keep the old domain and send visitors to the new one — connect the old domain again and set a Redirect