Set up a custom domain

A custom domain lets you use your own domain or subdomain for your Lovable project instead of the default xxx.lovable.app URL. Connecting a custom domain improves your site’s:

• Brand identity: look more trustworthy and professional
• Search engine visibility: better SEO and discoverability
• Memorability: easier for users to share and remember

Custom domains are available on paid plans. This page covers what applies to every custom domain: where its DNS records live, what each status means, and how to manage a project’s domains.

Choose how to set up your domain

You can set up a domain at any time, but you need to publish your project before your domain can start serving your site. For the end-to-end path from publishing to a live site on your own domain, follow the guide Launch your site on a custom domain. On the Enterprise plan, a workspace can also connect one publishing domain, so that every project it publishes gets an address under that domain without a per-project setup. You can access the domain setup from:

• Project → Settings → Domains
• Publish dialog → Add domain
• Workspace settings → Workspace domains
• Chats or the project chat, by asking Lovable

In Project → Settings → Domains, Lovable lists the project’s domains and email senders under Connected domains, grouped by root domain. To add a domain:

• Buy a domain: for the project’s first domain, search under Find and buy a domain. After that, click Buy a new domain under More domains. An In your workspace badge marks results your workspace already owns.
• Connect a domain you own: for the first domain, click Connect under Connect a domain you own. After that, click Connect domain under More domains.
• Use a workspace domain: workspace admins and owners can select a domain registered through Lovable under Connect a workspace domain. The row shows up to 5 domains, with domains not yet serving a site listed first. To connect a domain the row does not show, use Connect or Connect domain and search for it.

From the project chat, you can ask Lovable to find a new domain, connect a domain you already own, or check how setup is going. Lovable asks you to confirm before buying or connecting. The same plan and permission requirements apply as in Project → Settings → Domains. You can’t choose the primary domain from the project chat. A domain you buy there for the project can still become its primary domain, as described in Primary domain.

Where do I add or edit DNS records?

Where you change a domain’s records depends on the nameservers the domain uses, not on where you bought it. A domain bought through Lovable and later pointed at your own nameservers is managed at your provider, as any other domain from another provider is. To check which case applies, open the domain in Workspace settings → Workspace domains and expand Advanced → DNS records. An Add record button there means Lovable maintains the domain’s records. A read-only list means you add and correct them at your provider. You need to be a workspace admin or owner to open this page. When Lovable maintains the records and the domain still shows a problem, there is nothing for you to correct. Select Check again from the domain’s three dots menu, and contact Lovable Support if the status does not change.

Add or edit DNS records for a domain bought through Lovable

When a domain uses Lovable’s nameservers, you can add your own DNS records alongside the ones Lovable creates automatically. Use this to add a TXT record for third-party domain verification (for example, Google Search Console or Google Workspace), an MX record for email, or any other records your setup requires. You need to be a workspace admin or owner to change DNS records. Go to Workspace domains (Workspace settings → Workspace domains), open the domain, and expand Advanced → DNS records. Click Add record and fill in the form:

• Type: select the record type. You can add A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, and NS records.
• Host: the subdomain the record applies to. Use @ for the root domain (for example, yourdomain.com), or a subdomain label like www or mail.
• Answer: the record value provided by the service you’re setting up (for example, the google-site-verification value from Google Search Console).
• TTL: the record’s time to live in seconds. The minimum is 300.
• Priority: shown only for record types that require it (MX and SRV).

Click Add record to save the new record. To change a record you added, open its three dots menu, select Edit, and click Save changes after editing. To remove one, select Delete and confirm. Records that Lovable manages show a lock icon and can’t be edited or deleted here. An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record lists the services allowed to send email for a domain. Each Host can hold only one SPF record. When an email sender uses the root domain, such as yourdomain.com, Lovable keeps the SPF record on the @ host. This record has no lock icon, so you can add your own entries to it. To let an inbox provider such as Google Workspace or Zoho send email from the domain, add its entries to that record instead of adding a second SPF record:

1. Open the SPF record’s three dots menu and select Edit your SPF entries.
2. In Your SPF entries, enter the entries your provider gives you, for example include:_spf.google.com. Lovable keeps its own entries before and after yours.
3. Click Save changes.

To remove your entries, clear the field and save. If you add a full SPF record for the domain with Add record, Lovable opens the SPF editor instead, with your existing and new entries filled in. Click Save changes to add the new entries. Lovable takes about 20 minutes to update the record. Until then, the row says that Lovable is updating the record. If you remove the email sender, Lovable deletes this record and your entries with it. See What happens if I delete an email domain?.

Change nameservers for a domain bought through Lovable

By default, Lovable manages the DNS for domains bought through Lovable using Lovable’s nameservers. If you’d rather manage DNS elsewhere, you can point a domain to your own custom nameservers (for example, Cloudflare). You need to be a workspace admin or owner to change nameservers. Go to Workspace settings → Workspace domains, open the domain, and expand Advanced → Nameservers. Click Edit to open Edit nameservers.

• Edit
  Enter at least two custom nameservers and click Save nameservers. If the domain has connected projects, Lovable asks you to confirm with Change anyway.
• Reset to Lovable
  In the Edit nameservers dialog, click Reset to Lovable to restore Lovable’s nameservers.

When you switch to custom nameservers, Lovable stops managing the domain’s DNS. You become responsible for every DNS record at your provider, and any connected project and its email stay offline until you recreate those records there.

Domain statuses

In Project → Settings → Domains, Lovable shows the connection status for each custom domain. These statuses apply to domains bought through Lovable and domains from other providers. Addresses under a workspace publishing domain use a separate card with Verifying and Live statuses. During setup, the progress line below the domain in the project Domains tab can show these stages:

• Preparing: Lovable is preparing the connection.
• Looking for your DNS records: Lovable is checking for the required records.
• DNS records found, waiting for them to take effect: Lovable found the records and is waiting for other networks to see them.
• Finishing up: Lovable is completing the connection checks and securing the connection with an SSL certificate.

If Lovable asks you to add records at your provider, select Set up DNS. To request another check, open the domain’s three dots menu and select Check again. When a connection needs attention but its DNS records look correct, Lovable shows a warning that it is checking the connection. Select Fix this in the warning to review the setup for a domain from another provider. For a Lovable-managed domain, workspace admins and owners can use the same action to open its workspace domain settings. For an active domain at another provider, Lovable can ask you to change the address your domain points to. The domain still works, but its DNS records need updating. If the notice shows Update, select it to try automatic setup. Otherwise, copy the records shown below the notice to your DNS provider. For registration, renewal, or registrant email problems, open the domain in Workspace domains and follow its alerts.

Manage project domains

Open Project → Settings → Domains and use the three dots menu next to a custom domain:

• Set as primary or Unset as primary changes which address visitors use. See Primary domain.
• Check again requests another connection check.
• Setup instructions shows the records for a domain from another provider while it is setting up or needs attention.
• Domain settings opens the workspace domain detail page for workspace admins and owners.
• Disconnect removes the connection from this project after you confirm. Project editors and above can disconnect a domain. Lovable does not cancel the domain’s registration, and you can connect it again later.

For domains registered elsewhere, remove the corresponding DNS records at your provider if you no longer want the address to point to Lovable. For a grouped root domain and www, the menu includes a separate group of actions for the www address. While an address is Disconnecting, its primary-domain and disconnect actions are unavailable. Email sender rows show their purpose and status. See Email domain statuses and Managing email domains for the sender’s status labels and actions.

Manage workspace domains

Domains bought through Lovable belong to your workspace. Open Workspace domains (Workspace settings → Workspace domains) to search domains, buy a domain, or select Transfer in to transfer a domain to Lovable. The list also includes domains connected from other providers and domains used for email. A domain registered through Lovable shows its registration, renewal, or transfer status first, whatever its connections are doing. Otherwise it shows the first of these connection statuses that applies:

• Disconnecting: Lovable is removing the domain’s connections.
• Needs attention: At least one connection has a problem. Open the domain to review the warning.
• Setting up: Lovable is still preparing at least one connection.
• Waiting for DNS: Lovable is waiting for the domain to start using Lovable’s nameservers. To see the nameservers to set at your registrar, open the domain and expand Advanced → Nameservers.
• Connected: The domain’s connections or Lovable-managed DNS are ready.
• Email configured: The domain has email senders but no website connection.

Workspace admins and owners can select a domain row to open the detail page:

• Lovable manages registration: For domains bought or transferred into Lovable, view Renews, Price, Auto-renew, and Registered. Change auto-renew here. From the card’s three dots menu, select Renew domain, Move domain, or Transfer out. For extensions that support it, select WHOIS privacy from the same menu. For domains registered elsewhere, the card identifies the registrar instead.
• Projects: View the projects using the domain and expand a project to inspect its addresses and DNS records. Follow any DNS setup or update instructions shown for an address, or open the project to manage its connection.
• Email: View email senders under the domain, their DNS records, and the projects that use them. Before selecting Remove sender from a sender’s three dots menu, review what removal affects.
• Advanced: Expand DNS records or Nameservers. You can edit DNS records here for a domain registered through Lovable that uses Lovable’s nameservers. For external DNS, the records are read-only and you make changes at your provider.
• Contact: Edit the registration contact information for a domain registered through Lovable, then click Save.

If DNS needs attention appears, review the affected addresses and select Check again after correcting the records. Registration and renewal alerts appear above the domain details. To move a domain bought through Lovable to another workspace, select Move domain in the registration card’s three dots menu. The destination workspace must be on a paid plan, and you must be an admin or owner there. Moving disconnects existing project connections in the source workspace. After the move, connect the domain to a project in the destination workspace. On the Enterprise plan, workspace admins and owners can connect one domain or subdomain for all projects from the Publishing domain section. See Publishing domain.

Primary domain

Lovable allows you to set one domain as the primary domain.

• Click the three dots menu next to your domain and select Set as primary. You can select a domain while setup is in progress. Lovable uses it as the primary address when the connection is ready. You cannot select an address that is disconnecting.
• The first custom domain you connect to a project automatically becomes the primary domain (for domains added after October 29, 2025), unless the project already has a primary address, such as an address under your workspace’s publishing domain.
• A domain you buy and connect to a project becomes its primary domain, replacing the project’s current primary domain. This applies whether Lovable chose that primary automatically or you set it yourself with Set as primary. Only an address under your workspace’s publishing domain stays primary.
• If a domain is primary, all other connected domains redirect to it. Lovable uses a 302 temporary redirect for page visits. A request that carries data, such as a form submission, gets a 307 temporary redirect instead, so the data survives the redirect.
• Lovable hosting does not support 301 permanent redirects between connected project domains. Primary domains can be changed, so Lovable uses temporary redirects to keep domain changes reversible.
• Only one domain can be primary at a time.
• You can unset the primary domain. All connected domains then serve the project equally. Click the three dots menu next to your primary domain and click Unset as primary.

FAQ

These questions cover behavior that applies to every custom domain. For buying and registration, see Buy a domain through Lovable. For setting up and fixing a domain from another provider, see Connect a domain from another provider.