Rename without breaking links

Your project lives at an address like myshop.trybailey.app. If you rename it, the address changes to match — which normally means every link people already have (bookmarks, shared posts, search results) would break.

You don’t have to let that happen. When you change the address, Bailey can keep the old one as a redirect.

Keep the old address

1. Open your project → Settings → Name & address.

2. Change the Address to the new name. A note appears explaining the switch.

3. Tick Keep the old address (redirect visitors to the new one), then Save changes.

Now anyone opening the old address is sent straight to the new one, keeping the exact page and link they clicked. Your …trybailey.app domain stays yours the whole time.

Example

Rename myshop → my-shop with the box ticked: myshop.trybailey.app/sale now redirects to my-shop.trybailey.app/sale.

Old addresses stick around until you free them

Kept addresses don’t expire on a timer. They keep redirecting until you decide to release them — so a link you shared last year still works. You can hold up to 5 old addresses per project.

To free one: Settings → Name & address → Old addresses → Release. After that the name goes back into the pool and anyone can take it, so its old links stop working — only release an address you’re sure no one relies on.

Coming back to an old name

If you rename back to an address you kept, it simply becomes your live address again — nothing is lost.

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Why no automatic expiry?

Bailey addresses share one space (*.trybailey.app). If an old address were auto-released into that pool, someone else could grab your former name and your old links would land on their site. Keeping the redirect until you release it yourself avoids that — no broken links, no surprises.