Your own domain

Give your site its own address, like www.maisoncafe.co.uk. Your AI can find a name that's free, tell you where to buy it, and connect it. You own the domain; Page Lemon hosts the site on it.

Last updated 13 October 2026 · View as Markdown

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What happens

1. Find: once you have a free account, your AI checks which names look free and gives you plain links to buy one at Porkbun or Namecheap, with a rough yearly price. We only link to domain companies that can also run the bare domain. Page Lemon doesn't sell domains or take a cut.
2. Buy: you open a link, create an account at that domain company and pay there. The domain is yours; you renew it with them each year.
3. Connect: say "connect" and the domain name. Your AI adds it to your site and gives you a link. Open it, sign in at your domain company and click Connect.
4. Live: Page Lemon sets up the secure padlock (https) for you and emails you when the site is live on your domain, usually within minutes. Your pagelemon.dev address keeps working.

Use www

Connect the www address, like www.maisoncafe.co.uk; the one-click link does this for you. It works with every domain company. To make the bare name (maisoncafe.co.uk) work too, turn on "forwarding" (sometimes "redirect") at your domain company, from maisoncafe.co.uk to https://www.maisoncafe.co.uk.

Want the bare name itself as the address? See Using the bare domain.

Names with accents or other scripts, like café.fr, work too.

Using the bare domain (example.com without www)

The bare domain is the name with nothing in front, like maisoncafe.co.uk. Pointing it at Page Lemon needs a special kind of DNS record, called ALIAS, ANAME or "CNAME flattening" depending on the company. Not every domain company has it.

These DNS hosts handle the bare domain directly (checked October 2026):

Our buy links only go to domain companies on this list (Porkbun and Namecheap), so a domain bought through your AI can always use the bare name.

If yours is one of them, ask your AI to connect the bare domain (for example "Connect maisoncafe.co.uk to my site"). It adds the record with the name @ and the value it gives you.

If your domain company isn't on the list, you have two choices:

• Use www (easiest): connect www.maisoncafe.co.uk and forward the bare name to it, as described in Use www.
• Move your DNS to Cloudflare's free plan, below. Your domain stays registered where it is; only the DNS (the address book for your domain) moves.

Move your DNS to Cloudflare (free)

About 20 minutes, plus waiting time. You keep your domain company and pay nothing extra.

1. Create a free Cloudflare account at cloudflare.com and confirm your email.
2. Add your domain: in the Cloudflare dashboard, choose Add a domain, type your domain (like maisoncafe.co.uk) and pick the Free plan.
3. Check the records Cloudflare found. Cloudflare copies the records it can see. Compare them with your screenshot, line by line. Add anything missing, especially every MX record and every TXT record. Leave the values exactly as they were.
4. Note the two nameservers Cloudflare gives you, like ada.ns.cloudflare.com and bob.ns.cloudflare.com.
5. Turn off DNSSEC at your domain company if it's on (look for "DNSSEC" in the domain's settings). You can turn it on again in Cloudflare later. Leaving it on while you switch can make the domain stop working.
6. Change the nameservers at your domain company. Sign in where you bought the domain, open the domain's settings and find Nameservers (sometimes "Custom nameservers" or "Use my own nameservers"). Replace the ones listed with the two from Cloudflare, and save.
7. Wait for Cloudflare's email saying your domain is active. It's often within an hour; it can take up to a day. Your website and email keep working on the old DNS meanwhile.
8. Connect the bare domain: ask your AI "Connect maisoncafe.co.uk to my site". In Cloudflare, set the new records to DNS only (grey cloud).

After the switch, make any future DNS changes in Cloudflare, not at your domain company.

One-click connect

Your AI's link opens your domain company's own Connect screen (this uses Domain Connect, an open standard). Sign in, check it names Page Lemon, and click Connect. It adds only what your website needs and leaves your email alone: nothing to copy or paste.

Add the records by hand

Only if one-click connect isn't available. You'll get records like these, with your own code:

1. Sign in where your domain's DNS is managed. Don't know where you bought it? Page Lemon looks up your domain's name servers and your AI tells you which company to sign in to, and which menu to open there.
2. Open the domain's DNS settings. They may be called "DNS", "DNS records", "Manage DNS" or "Advanced DNS".
3. If there's already an A, AAAA or CNAME record named www (an old website or a "parking" page), edit it or delete it first. Two records with the same name block each other.
4. Add the CNAME record, then the TXT record. Copy each value exactly.
5. Add any other records you were given, the same way. Some domains need one more for the security certificate.
6. Save. If a box asks for "TTL", leave it as it is.

Name box only wants part of it? Most companies add your domain to the end for you, so type just www or _pagelemon.www. If yours wants the whole name, type www.maisoncafe.co.uk and _pagelemon.www.maisoncafe.co.uk.

Is it working yet?

Ask any time, in the same chat or a new one. Page Lemon re-checks the domain and your AI tells you what it sees in DNS: the domain is live, or exactly what's still missing, such as:

• a www record that still points at your old website;
• a TXT record with a mistyped value;
• no records visible yet (new records can take a few hours to reach everyone);
• a domain that doesn't exist in DNS, which usually means it was only just bought or wasn't renewed;
• a CAA record that blocks the security certificate.

You can also open the site → Domains in your account and click Check now. Asking to connect the same domain again is safe: it repeats the steps and adds nothing.

When the domain goes live, Page Lemon emails you. Your pagelemon.dev address keeps working the whole time.

Someone else runs your domain?

If a web designer, your IT person or a company manages your domain, you don't need their password. Send them the link from your AI: they open it and click Connect. If one-click connect isn't available, your AI, or Someone else runs your DNS? on the Domains tab, gives you a share link with the records and live status. Send them that link.

Move a domain to another site

To put your domain on a different one of your sites:

1. Remove the domain from the old site first ("Disconnect www.maisoncafe.co.uk from my old site"). Your AI asks you to confirm.
2. Add it to the new site. The CNAME record stays as it is; you get a new TXT value to replace the old one.

Handing a site to someone else? When you transfer a site, its domain moves with it and keeps working: nothing to redo in DNS. The domain's registration stays in the account where it was bought. To put the registration in the new owner's name, use the domain company's own "transfer to another account" (or "change of registrant") steps.

If something goes wrong

More fixes: Fix a problem.