Using a siteglowup.ai Subdomain

Don't have a domain yet?

You don't need one to launch. Every SiteGlowUp customer can pick a free *.siteglowup.ai subdomain (like yourshop.siteglowup.ai) and go live in seconds. Use it as your permanent address, or treat it as a staging URL while you shop for a custom domain.

How it works

When you enter a siteglowup.ai subdomain in the DNS section of your dashboard:

1. We reserve the subdomain in our parent DNS zone
2. We attach it to your site's CloudFront distribution
3. We bind our pre-provisioned wildcard SSL certificate
4. We flip your site to live mode

Unlike a custom domain — which requires you to update name servers at a registrar and wait for DNS propagation — a siteglowup.ai subdomain is live the moment you save. No registrar, no 24-to-48-hour wait, no certificate dance.

How to connect one

1. Open the DNS section of your dashboard
2. Choose Use a siteglowup.ai subdomain
3. Type the subdomain you want (lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only)
4. We check availability in real time — if it's taken, pick another
5. Click Use this subdomain

Your site is live at yoursubdomain.siteglowup.ai within seconds.

Cost

Free. Your subscription covers it — there's no separate registration fee because there's nothing to register. We own siteglowup.ai and hand you a slice of it.

Switching to a custom domain later

You can move to a custom domain any time. The siteglowup.ai subdomain stays active until you remove it, so your site has continuous uptime during the transition:

1. Buy your custom domain at a registrar (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, etc.)
2. In your dashboard, start the standard DNS migration flow for your new domain
3. Update name servers at your registrar
4. Wait for propagation (the dashboard shows live status)
5. Once the custom domain is live, you can keep the siteglowup.ai subdomain as a backup or release it

See Name Servers for the custom-domain setup walkthrough.

Good fits for a siteglowup.ai subdomain

• You're testing a business idea and don't want to buy a domain yet
• You need to show a stakeholder a live URL this afternoon
• The subdomain matches your brand well enough to ship permanently
• You want a staging/preview URL while working on the real site