Custom domains

Every site is reachable at its name.jimp.site address. On every plan, a site can carry up to five domains of your own. The one you choose becomes the site's address, and the other addresses redirect to it permanently, so search engines see one canonical host.

Connecting a domain you own

In the editor's Identity tab, add the host you want to connect. The panel gives you three lines to publish at your registrar, each with a copy button:

1. Traffic: a CNAME that points the host at saas.jimp.site.
2. Certificate: a CNAME on _acme-challenge.<your host> that delegates certificate validation, so the certificate is issued and renewed without you ever touching DNS again.
3. Ownership: a TXT record on _jimp-verify.<your host> that names this site, so a domain cannot be attached to someone else's.

Publish the three, leave them in place, and Jimp verifies automatically, usually within minutes. The panel says what it sees ("line 1 is not visible yet", "line 2 points somewhere else"), and the certificate follows on its own.

Root domains

A root domain (example.com, without www) cannot carry a CNAME: that is a limit of DNS itself. Connect www.example.com with the three lines, then set a redirect from the root to www at your registrar, over HTTPS if you can. The panel checks that redirect too.

Reserving a domain

Type a domain you would like and the panel tells you, live, whether it is free and at what price. Buying through Jimp is not open yet: meanwhile, buy it at the registrar of your choice and connect it as above.

The site's address

Once verified, make the domain the site's address: the canonical address becomes yours, the sitemap and every canonical tag point at it, and the .jimp.site address and your other domains redirect there permanently. An unverified domain can never become the site's address. Pick an address you mean to keep: changing it redirects the old one permanently, including for visitors who already followed it.

If a domain stops answering

Jimp keeps checking every connected domain. If one stops answering, usually after a DNS change or an expired domain, it shows as not responding in the editor and you get an email, in your language, saying whether it is the site's address. As soon as it answers again, everything is back in place.

WordPress migration

A site migrated from WordPress stays out of search engines until it has a verified domain, so there are never two copies of the same site online. The day your domain is verified on the Jimp site, the site opens to search engines and every old address 301-redirects to its new page.