Your web address is permanent

Your community lives at an address like rachel.drry.com. You choose the first part when you sign up.

You cannot change it afterwards. Not in Settings, not by asking support. The only way to a different address is to delete the community and build a new one, which means losing your posts, your members and their subscriptions.

So it is worth two minutes of thought now.

The rules

• Lowercase letters and numbers, with single hyphens between words

• No spaces, no underscores, no accented characters

• It cannot start or end with a hyphen

• Some words are reserved and cannot be used, including app, www, admin, api and mail

The signup form checks availability as you type and tells you straight away if something is taken or not allowed.

If you want your own domain instead

You are not stuck with drry.com forever. On the Creator plan and up you can connect a domain you own, so your community is served from community.yoursite.com or your own root domain.

That does not replace your Drry address, it sits alongside it. Both keep working. So a Drry address you are lukewarm about is a much smaller problem than it feels like on day one, as long as it is not actively embarrassing.