Custom domains

Your own .com for the price of two coffees a year.

The free your-project.vercel.app URL works fine. yourname.com hits different, and it costs about $10 to $15 a year from a registrar like Namecheap, Cloudflare, or GoDaddy. Search a name, pay, it's yours.

Two warnings for checkout, wherever you buy. First, decline the add-ons (professional email, site builders, SEO packages), because you need none of it. The one exception worth keeping is domain privacy, usually about $1/month, which hides your name and address from the public ownership registry.

Point it at your site

In your Vercel project: Settings → Domains → Add, then type your new domain. Vercel shows you two DNS records (an A record and a CNAME): instructions your registrar needs so the name points at your site. Add them in your registrar's DNS settings, or take the genuinely easier path:

I bought a domain at [registrar] and I'm connecting it to my Vercel project. Here are the DNS records Vercel wants: [paste]. Walk me through exactly where to put these in my registrar's dashboard.

Then hit Refresh on Vercel's Domains page. Propagation takes minutes to a few hours; when the status flips to valid, your name is live. (DNS is the one part of this whole guide where waiting is normal, so don't debug it for the first hour. Just let it settle.)

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