Custom domains make a project feel real. But for many developers, DNS, the last mile, is also the most frustrating: A records, CNAME entries, TTLs, and that long wait where you’re never quite sure if the internet is broken or you are.
In this post, I’ll walk through how I took a project from an empty repository to a live website on a custom domain, secured with HTTPS, in about 14 minutes without manually editing a single DNS record. The trick is to let GitHub Copilot CLI drive the work, with a community Namecheap skill handling the DNS automation through the registrar’s API.
Here’s what you’ll learn how to do:
Publish a site with GitHub Pages
Register an inexpensive domain
