Your own domain

Your site starts at yourname.kaydro.com. You can give it your own name, such as hodanhomes.co.ke.

To buy one (owners and managers, any plan, once Kaydro has switched domain sales on):

1. Settings → Your web address → Buy one here, and type a name. Each ending shows as free or taken, with its price a year in your currency.
2. Press Buy, choose 1, 2, 3 or 5 years, and give the owner's details for the registry (hidden from the public).
3. Pay. With M-Pesa, a PIN prompt comes from Kaydro's paybill with the order number as the account. Paid another way, the order shows where to pay (Kaydro's paybill or bank) and waits until Kaydro confirms it.

Once paid, the domain is registered in your company's name, pointed at your website and given its padlock, then becomes your main address. A new domain can take up to an hour to reach everyone on the internet.

Domains shows your domains at a glance: how many, how many are on your website, any expiring soon and orders still to pay, then a domain search, Your domains and Orders.

If your plan does not include the website, the domain is domain only: it is yours to use (DNS, lock, transfer), and hosting your website on it is a separate charge. Add the website to your plan and the domain opens your website by itself.

Your domain's page. Press a domain to open its manager, with these tabs:

• Overview shows each step with a tick: registered, pointed at your website, found on the internet, padlock on. If a step is not done yet, it says why. Point at the website sets the domain and www again (your email records stay). Check now looks again.
• Renewal: the end date and days left, Auto-renew on or off, Renew for 1 to 5 years, and every order for the domain.
• DNS records: add or change records, for example MX and TXT for email at Google or Microsoft.
• Lock and transfer: Lock or Unlock it, and the Transfer code to move it to another registrar.
• Owner: the owner's details kept by the registry (hidden from the public).
• Activity: what was done to the domain, and when.

In DNS records, the buttons + Google Workspace email and + Microsoft 365 email add the records those services ask for; press Save DNS to put them live.

You are reminded 30, 7 and 1 days before it expires; with auto-renew and an M-Pesa number, the prompt comes two weeks before.

A domain you already own: ask Kaydro to connect it. Settings → Your web address then shows the records to add at your domain company, and says Live or why it is not yet.

Point the domain and www straight at Kaydro's server. Through a proxy service, the padlock cannot be issued.

Until your website is switched on, your domain shows a simple "coming soon" page with your name, logo, and buttons to call or WhatsApp you.