> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.foundable.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Change your web address

> Choose or change your website’s foundable.app address to give it a name that fits your business.

Your website’s web address looks like `yourname.foundable.app`. Before your first publish, Foundable suggests a name from your [foundable](/help/glossary#foundable)’s name, and adds a number if that name isn’t free. Keep it, choose another, or change it later.

You need to be the owner, an admin or a member.

**1. Open the Publish panel**

Open your website in **Build**. Press **Publish** at the top right, or at the right of the bottom bar on a phone. Once your website is live, that button says **Live** or **Update**.

**2. Open the address**

While your website isn’t live, press the address. Once it’s live, press the pencil (**Edit URL**) next to it. If your own address, your [primary domain](/help/glossary#primary-domain), is live, the panel shows it instead, with no **Edit URL**.

**3. Type a new name**

Type the part before .foundable.app, then press **Save**. Use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. A name can’t start or end with a hyphen, or have two hyphens in a row.

## What happens to the old address

Before your first publish, your website goes live at the name you saved. After that, your website moves to the new address, and the old one stops working.

The old address stays yours, so no one else can take it. Change it again whenever you like.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Links to your old address stop working when you change it. Update any links you’ve shared, like on social media or printed cards.

## Check that it worked

The panel shows your new address. Once your website is live, press the address to open your website there.

## If something goes wrong

> **“That address is taken or reserved. Try another name.”**
>
> Your website can’t use this address. Type another name, then press **Save**. If this happens as you first publish, the panel names a free address instead: publish again to use it, or choose another name.

> **“Use 3 to 63 lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.”**
>
> The name is too short or too long, or it breaks one of the rules in step 3. Change it to fit, then press **Save**.

> **“Too many changes just now. Try again in a minute.”**
>
> You changed your address many times in a row. Wait a minute, then try again.

## FAQ

> **Can my website have an address like yourbusiness.com?**
>
> Yes: buy or connect an address of your own, a [domain](/help/glossary#domain). It needs an [active plan](/help/glossary#active-plan). See [Use your own domain](/domains/overview).

> **Does renaming my website change its address?**
>
> No. **Rename**, in ⋮ (**Website actions**), changes only your website’s name in Build. See [Rename, duplicate or delete a website](/build/manage-websites#rename-duplicate-or-delete-a-website).

## Related

> **[Publish your website](/build/publish)**
>
> Put your website online at its address.

> **[Manage your live website](/build/live-website)**
>
> Copy and share your address.

> **[Use your own domain](/domains/overview)**
>
> Give your website an address like yourbusiness.com.


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