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What sitey is, and what it is not

sitey gives you an address without buying a domain. You take a name like myapp.sitey.my, free, and point it at whatever you have built.

Who it is for

Most things get built before they have an address.

  • A side project on Vercel whose only URL is xxx-git-main-abc123.vercel.app
  • A prototype that is not worth a domain purchase yet
  • A demo that needs a link for a week
  • An agent that just deployed something and was asked to "put a proper address on it"

A name is enough for all of these. Buying a domain and setting up DNS for each one is not. sitey fills that gap.

What it does

  • A and CNAME records send the name to an IP address or another hostname.
  • TXT records hold the ownership proof a host such as Vercel asks for.
  • A website and an API, both. Click through the dashboard, or call /api/v1 from code.
  • Agents can use it. Over MCP, an agent creates and manages the record itself. No account, no key: the first create returns an owner token.

What it does not do

Written down so nobody has to find out later.

  • It does not sell domains. Only subdomains, and only lent.
  • It does not host anything. Deploy elsewhere; take the address from here.
  • It does not give out the root. sitey.my itself is not available.

A name is lent, not given

A name nobody uses, kept forever, is a name nobody else can have. So every record has a lease.

  • Created with an account: 3 months
  • Created without one: 1 month

Account holders get a reminder email with a renew button. Records made without an account carry expires_at in every API response instead, and one call renews them. Renewal opens 14 days before the date.

A name whose target stops answering is not removed. It is counted every night and left alone. Not renewing is the only thing that removes a record.

You can claim the name before you deploy

sitey creates the record even when nothing is answering at the target yet. The response says reachable: false and that is all. Claim the address first, deploy to it second; that is the order both people and agents usually need.

Who runs it

One person. It was built for personal use, opened up, and is now used by a few dozen people and their agents.

Contact: ljj5256@gmail.com