Weebly provides is a free weebly subdomain like

http://justdemos.weebly.com/ for every site you create with Weebly.

However, if you want to set your own address, like telugumahal.com without weebly being part of your web site address, you can change the settings for your Weebly site to use this domain alias.

Inorder to use your own website address for your Weebly site, you should first purchase the custom domain. You can purchase an available address either through Weebly, or through a third party registrar like GoDaddy.

We will discuss both the options here.

Option 1: Domain Purchased directly from Weebly

All domains (website addresses) purchased directly from Weebly can be found under the “Domains” section soon after you login. Click the “Domains” tab and your domains are listed under “My Domains”

Select the  ”Manage” tab corresponding to the domain you would like to use for the website.

The “Destination” field is where you associate a domain with the site. Click “Edit” and you can associate the domain with a site you already created. If you have not yet created a site, you can select the option to create a site.

Option 2: Domain Purchased at third party registrar

If you have a domain that you purchased from registrars like GoDaddy instead of Weebly, you can associate that name with your Weebly site too for free.

This is a two stage activity. First stage is to change the website address on your Weebly Site. Second stage is to set the correct IP addresss at your domain registrar (like GoDaddy, 1and1, BlueHost, NameCheap, Register.com, Yahoo etc)

Stage 1: Change Site Address for Weebly Site

Select the “Settings” for the site you would like to use your custom website address. Click the “Change Site Address” which is right below your current site address.

Once you click the “Change Site Address”, you will see multiple options. Choose the option that says “Use A Domain You Already Own”. Enter the address of the domain you purchased from third party and click “Continue”.

Once you click “Continue” you will be presented with instructions along with the IP-Address that you need for stage 2. Note the IP-Address, it is important. You will need to use this IP-Address to tell your domain registrar where to point the website address to. It will be some thing like 199.34.228.57 or 199.34.228.100 etc.

Stage 2: Setting the IP-Address at your domain registrar

Note that it may take up to 48 hours for this information to be propagated to all of the DNS Servers. Usually, it is much shorter than that.Take the IP-Address you obtained from Stage 1. You will need to create an A-Record at your domain registrar (like GoDaddy, 1and1, NameCheap etc) and point your domain to the IP-Address from Stage 1. If you know how to edit the Zone file, you may do it yourself. Otherwise, call up your domain registrar and tell them that your site is hosted with Weebly and that you will need an A-Record created for your domain. Give them the IP-Address and you are done.

Note that it may take up to 48 hours for this information to be propagated to all of the DNS Servers. Usually, it is much shorter than that.

Once the changes are propagated, your old subdomain will automatically forward to your new custom website address.

If you are looking to purchase a custom website address, we suggest that you buy it through some one like GoDaddy which costs about $10/year. Purchasing it through Weebly costs around $40/year.

For more details on how to use your custom website address for Weebly, check Weebly documentation also at http://kb.weebly.com/domain-registrar.html

You can not only assign a root domain, but also assign a custom sub-domain to your Weebly website.

You can not only assign a root domain, but also assign a custom sub-domain to your Weebly website.