To connect a custom domain to your AI-built website, you add two small records at the company where you bought the domain, and your host does the rest. On Yetty, a wizard shows you the exact records for your provider, watches until they land, verifies ownership, and turns on SSL automatically - your site stays online the whole time. No code, no downtime, usually done within the hour.

If the word “DNS” has been the thing stopping you, good news: it’s one paragraph of understanding and two copy-pastes of work.

What DNS actually is, in one paragraph

DNS is the internet’s address book. When someone types yourdomain.com, their browser asks the address book “where does this live?” and gets back an answer that points at a server. The company you bought your domain from (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, whoever) keeps your page of that address book, and “connecting a domain” just means writing two lines on it: one that says “my site lives at Yetty” and one that proves the domain is really yours. That’s the whole mystery.

The two records that do the job

Concretely, the wizard gives you:

  • A CNAME record - the “my site lives here” line, pointing your domain at Yetty.
  • A TXT record - a one-time proof of ownership, so nobody else can claim your domain onto their site.

You paste both into your provider’s DNS page. Yetty shows the records formatted for your specific provider, because every provider’s screen names the same fields slightly differently - this is exactly where people usually get stuck, and exactly what the wizard removes.

What happens after you paste them

Nothing you need to babysit. DNS changes take anywhere from a minute to a few hours to spread across the internet, and the wizard keeps checking for you - you can close the tab. The moment your records land, Yetty verifies the domain, issues an SSL certificate automatically (that’s the padlock - free, renewed forever), and starts serving your site on the new address. Your free yetty.site address keeps working throughout, so there is never a moment when your site is down.

Before you start: the ten-second checklist

  • Your site is already live on its free yetty.site address (if not, start here - it takes minutes).
  • You can log in to the place where you bought the domain.
  • You’re on the Live plan - custom domains are the main thing it unlocks.

That’s genuinely all. And if you’ve connected your AI to your site, you can even ask it to walk you through the connection - it can read the wizard’s status over MCP and tell you exactly what’s pending, which pairs nicely with letting your AI run the site day to day.

Ready? See how hosting and domains work on Yetty - free address now, your own domain when you’re ready.

FAQ

Will my website go down while I connect my domain?

No. Your site keeps serving on its yetty.site address the entire time, and the custom domain simply starts working alongside it once DNS lands and is verified.

Do I need to buy hosting and a domain from the same place?

No. Your domain stays at the registrar you bought it from - it never leaves your account. You just add two records there that point it at your hosting.

How long does it take for a custom domain to start working?

Adding the records takes about two minutes; the internet then needs anywhere from a minute to a few hours to notice. The wizard watches for you and SSL switches on automatically the moment it lands.