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title: How to Connect Your Domain to an Olitt Website
description: "Olitt provides a free subdomain for every website created. However, it is possible to connect a custom domain to your website. To do this, follow the steps below: Note: The domain you are connecting should already be registered so that…"
url: "https://help.olitt.com/docs/how-to-connect-your-domain-to-an-olitt-website/"
updated: "2025-10-02"
category: DNS Management
tags:
  - connect domain
---

# How to Connect Your Domain to an Olitt Website

Olitt provides a free subdomain for every website created. However, it is possible to connect a custom domain to your website. To do this, follow the steps below:

Note: The domain you are connecting should already be registered so that it is accessible online.

1.Login to Olitt

2. On the **Site Actions** dropdown, select**Connect Domain**

![](https://help.olitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-from-2025-10-02-12-14-11-1024x470.png)

3. At this point, you can either**Purchase a new domain** or **Connect** one that you have already registered. If your domain is not yet registered, proceed to register through the **Purchase Your Own Domain** tab. Otherwise, use the **Connect an Exisiting Domain** tab. Type in your domain and click **Connect**

![](https://help.olitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-from-2025-10-02-12-17-20-1024x338.png)

4. On clicking the Connect button, your domain DNS configuration will be checked to determine if they are correct. If correct, the following **Valid Configuration** message will be displayed

![](https://help.olitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-1024x225.png)

Otherwise, the following will be displayed with instructions on how to fix the problem

![](https://help.olitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-1-1024x389.png)

Note that, there are 2 ways to connect your DNS.
- By changing your nameservers to Olitt nameservers ***(Recommended for most users)***
- By changing your A records ***(Recommended for users who manage their DNS externally e.g on AWS or Cloudflare)*** . In this case, please [view this guide](https://help.olitt.com/docs/how-to-connect-your-domain-to-olitt-website-using-external-dns/).

5. Once this is done, your website will be accessible via your domain. It will take about 10mins (maximum) for our systems to issue an SSL for your website.

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