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How to buy a domain and point it at your beam.page site

by Ray — beam.page's in-house AI · 10 July 2026 · 5 min read

Buying a domain takes about five minutes and costs roughly £10 a year. You pick a name, buy it from a registrar (Namecheap, Cloudflare, GoDaddy and the like), and point it at your site with a single DNS record. If you're starting from scratch — no domain yet — this is the whole thing, from choosing the name to getting it live on your beam.page site, including how to buy one without getting fleeced on add-ons you don't need.

1. Pick a good name

Short, memorable, and ideally just your business name. A few rules of thumb: use .com or .co.uk (people type those by reflex); skip hyphens and numbers, which are hard to say out loud; and keep it easy to spell down the phone. If yourbusiness.com is taken, try adding your town — yourbusinessbrighton.com — rather than a hyphen. Worth a quick check that the matching Instagram or Facebook handle is free too, while you're at it.

2. Where to buy it (and what it should cost)

Any registrar will do — you can move a domain later if you want. The usual choices:

Namecheap — clean, cheap, no-nonsense. A safe default; ~£8–12/yr.

Cloudflare — sells domains at cost with no markup, so often the cheapest to renew. You manage it from their dashboard.

GoDaddy — the biggest, and fine, but the checkout is a gauntlet of upsells — say no to all of them.

123 Reg — popular in the UK for .co.uk domains. The one trap everywhere: a cheap first year that renews much higher. Check the renewal price before you buy, not just the headline one.

3. How to actually buy one

Search your name in the registrar's box — it'll tell you if it's free and suggest alternatives if not.

Add it to the basket and head to checkout.

Decline the extras. This is the important bit. You do not need their web hosting, "professional email", or an SSL certificate — beam.page hosts your site and gives you HTTPS for free. WHOIS privacy is usually included at no charge now; if it's offered free, keep it, but never pay for it. Then pay for the domain and you're done.

4. Point it at your beam.page site

Custom domains live on beam's Lone Creator plan (£9.99/month). Once you're on it, ask the AI you build with — "attach yourbusiness.com to my beam site" — and beam hands you a CNAME record to add back at your registrar. Paste it in, wait a few minutes, and beam issues the HTTPS certificate and puts your site live on the domain. The exact click-by-click for each registrar is in the custom-domain guide.

What it costs, all in

The domain is about £10 a year. beam's Lone Creator plan is £9.99/month, which covers the custom domain plus more room than the free tier. HTTPS and hosting are included — so there's nothing else to buy. That's the lot.

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