Custom Domains

Buy without the busywork

Search for the domain you want and register it without ever leaving SimplePath. There is no separate registrar account to create and no DNS records to copy and paste. Once you buy it, the technical setup, including HTTPS certificates, happens for you.

Renewals handled

You can turn on automatic renewal so your domain never lapses by accident, and manage it any time from your site settings. Prices are always shown before you buy, and the renewal price is quoted fresh rather than assumed from what you paid last time.

We also tell you well before anything happens. A heads-up goes out about a month ahead, reminders follow if renewal is off, and they keep coming for weeks past the expiry date while the domain can still be recovered. Losing a domain by forgetting about it is a genuinely expensive mistake, and it is one we would rather you never make.

Already have a domain?

If you already own a domain, whether it was bought last week or fifteen years ago, you can connect it yourself. SimplePath shows you the exact records to add at your current registrar, checks public DNS to tell you which ones are already in place, and finishes the connection on its own once they appear. There is nothing to time or come back and press.

We never touch the rest of your DNS. Your email keeps working, and anything else pointed at that domain stays where it is, because we only ever ask you to add records rather than taking over the zone. If you use the domain for company email, that is the sentence that matters.

Connected while you get on with something else

Buying a domain and making it actually show your website are two different jobs, and the second one is where most people get stuck. Records have to be pointed in the right direction, a security certificate has to be issued for the name, and the whole thing has to be checked before it works.

SimplePath does that part in the background and keeps checking until your site really is answering on the new address. It usually takes minutes rather than the day or two the internet warns you about, and you get a message when it is done. You do not have to sit and refresh anything.

Your address, everywhere it counts

Once your domain is live it becomes the real address of the site. Search engines are told it is the canonical one, so your pages are credited to your domain rather than split between two addresses, and the free simplepath.name address redirects to it instead of competing with it.

That is a detail most people never think about, and it is one of the easier ways to accidentally hold your own site back in search results.

What you get

• Search and register a domain without leaving SimplePath
• DNS and HTTPS certificates set up automatically
• Usually connected within minutes of buying it
• Optional automatic renewals, with reminders well in advance
• Connect a domain you already own, yourself, with guided records
• Your existing email and other DNS records are never touched
• Search engines are pointed at your domain as the canonical address

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