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Hi. In this video, I'm going to show you how to

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set up your custom domain in your Simplero account.

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So this is assuming that you've already purchased it.

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If you haven't purchased a custom domain yet, you'll need to do that first before you get started.

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So from your Simplero dashboard,

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click on the settings cog here,

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then you're gonna click on change your URL.

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On this page, you're gonna click add domain,

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and you're just going to type in

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your custom domain.

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And before I click save, I actually prefer to leave this modal open,

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while I'm working in my DNS manager. That way I can just switch back and forth.

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Because if you'll notice here, you have all of your instructions.

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This is everything that you need to know here. So and you actually have these really nifty

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copy to clipboard,

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icons.

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So when you click it, it's copied to your clipboard, and, you just navigate over to your DNS manager and paste it.

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Before I save this change, we're gonna go over to the DNS manager. I'm using GoDaddy.

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The same rules apply no matter what domain host that you've chosen.

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You're just going to open up that account and look for a DNS manager

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or advanced DNS or cpanel.

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Anything that sounds like that, that's what you're gonna wanna navigate to.

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Once you've found your DNS

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management screen,

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you're just gonna start adding the records.

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We'll add a new record. Let's go back over here.

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And the first record that we're going to add is an a record pointing to

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this IP, which we've already copied.

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You should see drop down where you can select a record type.

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In the drop down box, you'll see a record, c name,

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TXT, and so on. I'm going to choose

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a record.

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Depending on your DNS manager, in the name field, you'll either add an at symbol,

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but some require that you leave the field blank altogether.

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So if you add an at symbol and you say that and you get an error message, then try removing the at symbol and leaving this field blank.

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And then I'm gonna paste in the value field the IP address that we just copied from the account.

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GoDaddy allows you to add more than 1 record at once.

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If your domain manager does not allow you to do that, then just save your a record and then create a new 1.

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So I'm going to create the second record now

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before I save any changes.

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So in my Simplero account,

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it says that the next record that I need to add is a c name record,

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and it's gonna point to this. So I'm just going to copy this to my clipboard.

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And

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from the drop down, I'm going to choose c name record this time.

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In the name field, we're going to do

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this.

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And in the value field, we're gonna paste the value that we just copied from the Simplero account.

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So all of this looks correct to me, and I'm going to go ahead and save my records.

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And success.

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So the records have been saved.

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Now we will head back into the account.

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Everything else can be handled in here.

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I'm going to save the changes on this domain

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and scroll down here and save my changes here.

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My preference is to not point my domain

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until

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it has verified

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because it could potentially lead to errors. Your domain will

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verify. You know, propagation can technically take up to 48 hours.

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But in most cases here, your domain will verify in actually, pretty quickly.

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But don't be alarmed if it doesn't verify as a heads up.

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Don't be alarmed if it doesn't verify for up to 24 hours.

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If you just pointed your domain away from 1 site into another,

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it could take a little bit longer.

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If after 24 hours, your domain still hasn't verified, you'll you can reach out to the the Simplero team

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and have have us take a look.

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Periodically, you can come back here and click recheck now to see if your domain has verified, and there we go.

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Let's see. Once it has verified, then the last

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step is to point your domain.

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So where do you want to point the domain that you've just set up to? Do you wanna point it to

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your main website? You can point it to your membership sites. You can also point it to individual

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landing pages.

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I'm going to choose my main site

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and then save my changes. So this means that whenever I visit

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my main website,

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it's going to use

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this domain.