{"id":465,"date":"2024-11-05T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2024\/11\/05\/10085905-how-to-connect-a-preferred-domain-name-instead-of-a-temporary-one-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:43:35","slug":"10085905-how-to-connect-a-preferred-domain-name-instead-of-a-temporary-one-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10085905-how-to-connect-a-preferred-domain-name-instead-of-a-temporary-one-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Connect a Preferred Domain Name Instead of a Temporary One at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If your website is currently connected to a generated temporary domain ending in <code>.hostingersite.com<\/code> or <code>.builder-preview.com<\/code>, you can easily replace it with your preferred domain name.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To do that, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> section, find the site in question, and click on <b>Connect<\/b> below the temporary domain name:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2024\/11\/a243b15a-f42f-4d3a-aebc-39dca61a291d.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You&rsquo;ll be prompted to select the preferred domain name from the list. If your preferred domain name is not on the list, it means it&rsquo;s not registered under your current Hostinger account. No worries &ndash; you can type the preferred domain name in manually:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2024\/11\/69a7dac9-0141-4ad3-b8d8-2150889e08e2.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Click <b>Next<\/b> and proceed with the steps on the screen to finish the connection. To learn more, refer to <a href=\"\/support\/1863967-how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to point a domain to Hostinger<\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After connecting your domain, give it some time to <a href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">propagate<\/a> worldwide. Your site will be up and running on the new domain soon!<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><hr><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you cannot select the domain and see &ldquo;Your domain can&rsquo;t have active subdomains&rdquo; error, then it means the domain is already added in your current hosting plan.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2024\/11\/aa4af11d-b68b-46b2-9efa-d863d907fc28.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In such a case, you would need to <a href=\"\/support\/3624731-how-to-delete-a-website-from-a-hosting-plan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">remove the domain<\/a> from the hosting plan first. Make sure to download the needed backup before removing the domain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing *.hostingersite.com and *.builder-preview.com with your own domain name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10085905-how-to-connect-a-preferred-domain-name-instead-of-a-temporary-one-at-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}