Connect your own domain name

A bakery that's been taking festival pre-orders through a generic subdomain for a year finally buys their own domain name, only to discover that connecting it means touching DNS records at their registrar — a screen full of unfamiliar codes where one wrong entry can take down not just the website but the shop's own email inbox too.

Custom domain connection is built around that exact fear. The owner enters a domain they already own, and Kuber shows precisely which records to add — no more, no less — with a live check confirming each one as it takes effect. Once the records are correctly in place, Kuber issues an SSL certificate automatically so the domain loads securely, without the owner needing to understand what a certificate is or manually renew anything later on their own.

DNS changes sit outside Kuber's control, because the records live at whichever registrar the domain was bought from, and that registrar's interface and naming conventions vary. Kuber shows exactly what to add, but the owner is the one logging into their registrar account and making the change there — a step that depends entirely on that third party's own systems and cannot be completed on the owner's behalf.

The record causing the most damage when handled carelessly is MX, the one that routes a domain's email. A bakery whose owner uses that domain for their inbox and overwrites the MX records while adding the website's A record can break incoming email without realising it until orders and supplier replies stop arriving — a mistake that has nothing to do with the website failing, only with a record sharing the same domain. Kuber's instructions only ask for records the website needs; anything already configured on that domain, including MX, should stay untouched.

Propagation — the time a DNS change takes to be visible everywhere — is outside anyone's control once saved; it can complete within minutes or take up to roughly two days depending on the registrar and domain history. The verification check keeps polling and confirms the moment it detects the change, but a business planning a switch around a launch date should build in a buffer rather than assuming an instant result. A domain bought outside Kuber also carries its own ownership record at that registrar, which Kuber cannot arbitrate if a dispute over ownership arises later.