How do I connect my own bought domain name to the free website I made using weebly?

[Pmt-art]

I own a website with weebly that I connected a domain name to years ago and I'm on the free weebly plan - that's great but today when creating a second site, I found that you won't allow me to connect a domain name I bought elsewhere without paying for a plan.

How can one site be able to connect freely and another wont?

[bobafett]

@Pmt-art:  You are grandfathered on the other one.  Now you can't do that.

[Pmt-art]

What does it mean to be grandfathered? I don't understand

[bobafett · Accepted solution]

@Pmt-art:  Weebly was playing nice.  They let you do that in the past, but now you have to pay them money to connect your domain.  They could have yanked that option and asked you to cough up $, but they grandfathereed you