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A custom domain lets people reach your app at your own address, like app.example.com or example.com, instead of your-app.vibelyagent.com. You buy the domain from any registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, and so on), then connect it to your project in Vibely. Vibely issues and renews the HTTPS certificate for you.
Connect a custom domain
  • Custom domains require the Pro plan or above.
  • Vibely doesn’t sell or transfer domains. Buy one from a registrar first.
  • By default, workspace owners and admins can connect domains. This is the Buy / connect domains row in Settings → Permissions.
  • Custom domains are for web apps. Mobile projects don’t have a Domains section.

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Before you start

  • Publish your project. A domain points at your live app, so the project must be published first. If it isn’t, the Domains section says “Your project is not published yet” with a Publish now button.
  • Have access to your domain’s DNS settings at your registrar or DNS provider. You’ll add a few records there.
  • Decide on the address. You can connect a root domain (example.com) or a subdomain (app.example.com, www.example.com).

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Connect your domain

1

Open Domains

In your project, open Manage → Settings → Domains.
2

Enter your domain

Under Add a domain, type the domain, for example app.example.com, and click Connect domain.If you enter a root domain like example.com, Vibely also adds www.example.com for you and lists it under the root.
3

Add the DNS records

Vibely shows a table: Add these DNS records at your registrar, with the Type, Host and Value of each record and a copy button. Add every record in the table at your DNS provider:Always copy the exact values from the table. They’re specific to your domain. For a root domain, your registrar may want the host as @ or left blank.
4

Wait for verification

Vibely checks your DNS automatically and updates the status. You can also click Re-check DNS. When the status shows Live, your app is reachable at your domain over HTTPS.DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to spread across the internet, though most finish much sooner. Vibely keeps checking.
Using Cloudflare for DNS? Set your records to DNS only (grey cloud), not proxied. Proxying intercepts the certificate check, and verification won’t complete.

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Root domains on registrars without ALIAS support

Some root-domain setups need a CNAME-style record at the root. Plain CNAME records aren’t allowed there, so registrars offer alternatives called ALIAS, ANAME or CNAME flattening (Namecheap, DNSimple and Cloudflare support one of them). If your registrar supports none of these (GoDaddy is a common example), you have two options:
  • Use www as your main address. When www.example.com is live but example.com isn’t, Vibely offers a Use www.example.com instead button. Then set up domain forwarding at your registrar so example.com redirects to www.example.com.
  • Move your DNS to Cloudflare (free), which supports CNAME flattening.

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Domain statuses

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Primary domain

When you connect more than one domain, one of them is the primary. The first domain you connect becomes primary automatically. Visitors to your other custom domains are redirected (301) to the primary one, so search engines see a single address. To change it, click Make primary on another domain. Only a Live domain can be primary. Your vibelyagent.com address keeps working alongside your custom domains.

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Manage your domains

  • In a project: Manage → Settings → Domains lists the project’s domains with their status, DNS records and a link to the live site.
  • Across the workspace: Settings → Workspace domains lists every domain attached to any project, with search, and lets you connect a domain to any published project with Add domain.

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Disconnect a domain

Click the trash icon (Disconnect) next to the domain and confirm. Visitors stop reaching your app on that domain. If it was a root domain, its www is removed too, and another live domain becomes primary. Remove the DNS records at your registrar afterwards if you no longer need them.

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FAQ

DNS is the internet’s address book: it tells browsers where to find your domain. A CNAME record points a name at another name, an A record points a name at an IP address (AAAA is the IPv6 version), and a TXT record holds text that services read to verify things, such as who owns a domain. SSL/TLS is what gives your site the padlock and https://.
Yes. The certificate is free, issued automatically once your DNS records are in place, and renewed for you.
No. Publish first, then connect the domain.
Not when you connect a root domain: Vibely adds www for you. If you connect only a subdomain, only that subdomain is connected.
Yes. Connect each one separately. Non-primary domains redirect to the primary.
No. A domain can only be attached to one project at a time. You’ll see “That domain is already in use.”
An old DNS record still points somewhere else. Remove any A, AAAA or CNAME records for that name that aren’t in Vibely’s table, then click Re-check DNS.
Compare every record with the table, including the host name. Some registrars add your domain to the host automatically, so app becomes app.example.com and you shouldn’t type the full name. Make sure Cloudflare records are DNS only. Then allow time for DNS to spread.
Publish the project again. That points the domain at your latest deployment and clears the error.
A domain you own is a long-term home for your search presence, and redirects keep one canonical address. What ranks is still your content and metadata. See SEO and AI search.
Domains already connected keep working. On a plan below Pro, you can’t connect new ones.

Publish

Put your app live first.

Branded URLs

A workspace-branded address for every app.

How Vibely hosts your app

HTTPS, global delivery and scale.

SEO and AI search

Build search presence on your domain.