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description: Unpublish and delete a Site.com site.
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# Take a Site Offline

Unpublish and delete a Site.com site.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td>

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              <p>Available for purchase in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>,
                and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available (with limitations) in:
                <strong>Developer</strong> Edition
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              Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d164748e74 ">To manage domains and publish Site.com sites:</td>

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              <p><samp class="parmname">Site.com Publisher User</samp> field enabled on the
                user detail page</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Site administrator role assigned at the
                site level</p>
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1. On the [Overview tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_overviewtab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As a site administrator or designer, when you open a site in Site.com Studio, it opens on the Overview tab. Here you can access and manage the site's components and configure the site's properties."), click **Site Configuration** | **Domains**.
2. Delete all listed domains.
    
    When you remove the last domain, the site goes offline immediately. Site visitors see a “Server not found” message or similar in their browser when they attempt to view the site.
3. In the window that appears:
    - Click **OK** to unpublish the site. Unpublishing the site releases the Site.com Published Site license associated with it, so you can use it to publish another site.
    - Click **Cancel** if you don't want to release the Site.com Published Site license—for example, if you plan to make the site publicly available again at a later date.
        
        If you change your mind after clicking **Cancel**, you can release the license by clicking **Unpublish** on the Overview tab. After a site is unpublished, the **Unpublish** button is replaced with the **Publish** button.
4. If you don't plan to reuse the domain with Site.com, remove any CNAME records that point to your\_domain\_name.orgID.live.siteforce.com in the account management settings of your DNS provider.

After you unpublish a site, you can delete it from the list of sites on the [Site.com tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_hometab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If you can't see the Site.com tab, go to the Site.com app. It's available in the Lightning Platform app menu in the Salesforce header. Then click the Site.com tab to view the list of your Site.com sites.").

#### See Also

- [Manage Domains in Site.com](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_domains_map.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before you can publish your site to the Internet, you must set the site's domain information.")
- [Publish Site Changes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_publish.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When you publish a site in Site.com, you make its pages and assets live on the Internet so site visitors can access them.")