# What will happen with my community web address if I upgrade, e.g. from Starter to Pro?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-will-happen-with-my-community-web-address-if-i-upgrade-e-g-from-starter-to-pro/382990
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**Created:** [September 17, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-will-happen-with-my-community-web-address-if-i-upgrade-e-g-from-starter-to-pro/382990 "2025-09-17T15:25:33Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-will-happen-with-my-community-web-address-if-i-upgrade-e-g-from-starter-to-pro/382990/8 "2025-09-17T17:30:06Z")

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When we’re talking about the domains or custom domains, we’re specifically talking about the domain and TLD part of a web address as shown here:

 ![image(5)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/7/6/6763bf945a19ae7993ebda0bb417448b69381a07.svg)

On the Starter plan, you get to choose the subdomain, which is used as part of the `discourse.group` domain. So `your-custom-name.discourse.group` ends up being your Discourse site’s web address.

When you upgrade to higher plans like Pro, you can optionally customize both the subdomain and the second-level domain by using a domain you’ve leased from a registrar like [namecheap.com](http://namecheap.com) or [porkbun.com](http://porkbun.com).

That’s when you’d need to follow instructions in [Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-your-domain-name-for-hosted-discourse/21827) to get a fully custom web address like `forum.example.com` or `myawesomeforum.com` instead of `example.discourse.group`

The path section of the address generally can not be changed.

> [@Stela\_Manova](#):
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> On Discourse pages, there are addresses with “community”, “forum/s”, and “discussion/s”,

Can you be more specific about where you see these? are you looking to change the text on your site in specific places? (screenshots may help)

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