01
A working address from the start
Before you buy a single thing, your site is live at <slug>.eduz.site — a real address you can share, print on a banner, or hand to a family at the gate.
02
Registrar-specific steps
Mapping your own domain is the part most tools leave you to figure out alone. The wizard detects your registrar and gives you the exact records to add, with screenshots — so the DNS step is a walkthrough, not a riddle.
03
Verified before it goes live
Domain ownership is checked before the mapping switches over, so the change is clean and your visitors never land on a half-configured page mid-cutover.
04
Publish, schedule, roll back
Publishing pushes to the edge. You can schedule a publish — a result-day page that goes up at the ceremony moment — and if something looks wrong, you roll back to the previous version in one step.
05
If you came from a shady registrar
Bought your domain somewhere that makes leaving hard? The walkthrough covers the transfer-out too, so a bad earlier choice doesn't trap your school's web address.
06
A graceful archive, never a dead link
If a school closes mid-year, its site is archived rather than pulled offline — families still need a transfer-certificate contact. A web presence that mattered doesn't vanish into a 404.