custom domain name

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A custom domain name is a domain which you attach to an existing hosting provider or website creation and management silo.

Silos which support custom domain names

Free:

• Blogger (free): instructions
• Codeberg Pages (free?): instructions
• GitHub Pages (free): instructions
• Tumblr (free): instructions

Paid:

• Bear Blog ($6 / month): instructions
• Medium ($5 / month): instructions
• micro.blog ($5 / month): instructions
• Neocities ($5 / month): [1]
• Nekoweb (donation required): docs
• omg.lol ($50 / year): instructions
• Sourcehut Pages ($4 / month): instructions
• Squarespace (starts at $8 / month): instructions
• WordPress.com ($5 / month): instructions

Previous silos which supported custom domain names

• Glitch: instructions (archived)

Other uses

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• Bluesky allows for custom domain name to be a handle but is distinct from hosting. See ATProto

Benefits of a custom domain name

The addition of a custom domain name to to a silo-managed website adds benefits such as:

• Ability export existing pages as HTML
  • Run wget --mirror
  • Drop the silo hosting
  • Upload static HTML to new hosting
• Archiving to Internet Archive
• For silos which support rel=me links, IndieLogin capabilities and other building blocks

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See Also

• web hosting#Custom_domain_silos
• List of domain name registrars
• Domains & Hosting category
• Past example: PBWorks, which at some point supported setting a custom domain, including redirecting from a subdomain on PBWorks to its custom domain. Unknown if it required a one-time payment, or annual payment for sometime. No payment seems required for the redirects to keep working, e.g. https://oauth.pbworks.com/ redirects to https://wiki.oauth.net/w/page/12238516/FrontPage