How to add your own domain to your account

While a free subdomain is a great way to get started, a website looks a lot more professional with a custom domain name. Fortunately, you can register your own domain name with an external company and use it on SuperFree.

Adding your domain name to your hosting account

To add your domain name to your hosting account, you first need to have a hosting account. Even if you only want to host your own domain with us, you’ll first need to create a hosting account with a subdomain, so you can add your own domain to it afterwards.

Through the Control Panel

There are two ways to add your domain through the Control Panel:

• As an Addon Domain: an Addon Domain gets it’s own, new website directory, so you can upload a new site to it, separate from your existing website. The directory will have a name like <your domain>/htdocs.

• As a Parked Domain: if you add your domain as a Parked Domain, you can select one of your existing domains on the account, which will link the domain to the same directory as the existing domain. This is the easiest way to get an existing website on your new domain.

Validating your domain name

Before you can add your own domain name to your account, you will need to configure some settings to prove that you own the domain name. There are two ways to validate your domain: using nameservers or using CNAME records.

Validating your domain by updating the nameservers

The recommended way to verify your domain name is by updating the nameservers. This is the easiest method, and requires the least steps. Nameserver validation works for adding domains while creating accounts or adding them to existing accounts.

However, some domain extensions and domain name providers do not support setting the nameservers of your domain to nameservers that have not been set up yet. Changing the nameservers may also cause downtime if you already have a website set up. For those cases, you can use CNAME verification instead.

After adding the domain: wait for DNS propagation

After you’ve added the domain name to your account, it probably won’t show your website right away. That’s because adding your domain name needs to configure our nameservers to point your domain name to the right hosting account. This change, like most DNS changes, can take up to 72 hours to be visible everywhere. Unfortunately, we can’t speed that up.