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Hey there. We'll be taking a look at how to connect your domain name to your website.

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GoDaddy is the leading domain registrar, so we'll be demonstrating this with a domain purchased from GoDaddy.

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However, the steps are very similar regardless of which registrar you purchased your domain from, and we'll link you to instructions for some other popular domain registrars.

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Before we get started, there are several important elements of your website that rely on having your domain connected, including your payment gateway, reCAPTCHA spam protection,

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Google Maps, as well as some other integrations,

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so you'll most likely want to connect your domain prior to setting up any of those integrations.

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Alright. Let's get started.

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So the first thing we'll wanna do is over in the left hand menu of our admin area, we'll go to settings

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and Domain Manager.

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Now in the Domain Manager, you can see on the left side, we have some instructions for how to connect your domain name.

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There's 2 methods.

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There's the Name Server method as well as the A Record method.

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For both methods, we've linked you to some helpful support documents from some of the other popular domain registrars,

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such as GoDaddy,

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Network Solutions,

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Namecheap, and Bluehost.

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Now typically, we'll wanna be connecting our domain via the name server method.

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This is the method we'll wanna use if we'll just be connecting a normal domain name, and that's what we'll be doing in this video.

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You'll wanna use the A record method if you're connecting a subdomain to your website, such as directory

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dot mywebsite.com.

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If you're just connecting a normal domain like mywebsite.com,

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then you'll most likely want to use the name server method.

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So there's 2 simple steps that we'll need to do to connect our domain to our website.

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The first step will be over in our domain registrar's account.

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Again, in this case, we'll be using GoDaddy.

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So let's head on over into our domain manager in GoDaddy,

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and you can see we have one domain here, set up my website.com.

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This is the domain that we'll be connecting to our website.

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So we'll click these three dots just to the right of the domain name, and we'll go to manage DNS.

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Now here at the top of this page under records, you'll see there's the a record.

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If you're going to be connecting your domain via the a record method,

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you'll edit the a record,

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you'll go into your website's admin area,

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and copy

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the a record method IP address

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that we've listed for you in the left hand side.

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We'll go back into GoDaddy,

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and for points to,

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we'll paste that IP address, and we'll save it.

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Again, this is for the a record method, typically, if you're connecting a subdomain to your website.

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In this video, this is not what we'll be doing, so we'll scroll down just a little bit to the name servers area in GoDaddy, and you can see that we have the 2 default name servers listed here.

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We'll want to click the change button,

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and in the lower left hand corner, we'll click enter my own name servers advanced,

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and here we can enter the 1st and second name server.

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So we'll go back into our website's admin area, and you can see the first and second name servers that we've listed on the left hand side of the domain manager.

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So we'll copy the first one, which is nsone.directorysecure.com,

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and we'll paste that into name server 1, and we'll do the same for the second name server, which is ns2.directorysecure.com,

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and once we have those 2 name servers pasted in here, we'll click save.

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We'll click yes, I consent,

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and the DNS management page in GoDaddy should refresh.

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Now, initially, you'll probably still see the default name servers here.

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So if we just refresh this page manually

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and we scroll down, we can now see that our new name servers, nsone.directorysecure.comandns2.directorysecure.com

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have been applied.

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The second step will require us to go back into our website's admin area,

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and all we need to do is in this area, we can enter our new primary domain

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for the website.

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So if it's a typical domain like we'll be using in this scenario, we'll start with www.,

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and we'll go ahead and put in our domain name. In this case, it's set up my website.com,

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and we'll enter that one more time to confirm,

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and we'll click add domain

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and confirm, and now we'll let the system apply the new domain name to our website.

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This process should take less than a minute, but the entire process as a whole, allowing the changes to the name servers to take effect, that can take up to 48 hours in some rare cases,

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but typically, you should see this entire process take effect in less than 15 minutes.

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Alright.

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So the system has finished processing the domain name change, and we can see up here our primary domain is now set to set up my website dot com.

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And if we click the visit website button in the top right corner,

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we'll see our website loads properly, and it's on our new domain name, setupmywebsite.com.

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This entire process for the system to process the domain name change and for the name server updates to be recognized took roughly 45 seconds.

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Again, this process is typically fairly quick.

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It should take less than 15 minutes, but in some rare cases, it might take up to 48 hours.

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If you have questions, please reach out at any time.

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Our team is always happy to help and support you.