How to Select Site Address for Your Weebly Site?

Whenever you create a website with Weebly, you have the following three options to choose the domain for your site address:

These options give complete flexibility to decide the site address you want.

Using Weebly Subdomain

This is the first and free option for choosing your Weebly site address. Free sites will be created as a subdomain of Weebly, for example http://yoursitename.weebly.com. You can enter the site address you want in the text box to check the availability. Weebly will instantly show the availability of the subdomain you entered as shown in the below picture.

Register a New Domain With Weebly

The second option is to register a new domain name with Weebly, you also can buy a domain under “Domains” menu.

There are many advantages of buying domain with Weebly:

The disadvantage is the high domain pricing set by Weebly. Below is the picture showing the details of Weebly domain pricing for up to 10 years. This is multifold costly than buying a domain from GoDaddy or Hostgator.

This pricing does not include Weebly Pro features for which you need to pay additional amount on monthly basis.

Connect Your Existing Domain

This is an ideal option for webmasters to buy a domain from other registrars and connect to their free Weebly site. The advantages are:

The disadvantage is that the initial DNS and CNAME setup are to be done separately on the control panel of the registrar site.

Change Existing Site Address

After setting up your site address by choosing any one of the above method, you always have an option to change your site address at any point of time later. Your existing site address is shown under “Settings” tab along with “Change” button, clicking on which will offer the same three options as explained above to choose your new domain.