Changing DNS
Your domain name must "point" to your web server for your website to be visible.
If you purchase both web hosting and your domain name at the same place as an "all included package" your web host provider will normally set this up for you.
The reason why we do not recommend this type of "package deal" is that if you later decide to change web hosting to another provider you may have to pay an exorbitant "transfer fee" to use your domain name elsewhere.
If you purchased your domain name at GoDaddy you can easily change the DNS record yourself.
First print (or make a note of) the nameservers your hosting provider use.
You'll find this information in the "Welcome-to-us" email.
This will be something like: "ns1: runbox.net" and "ns2: runbox.net"
Sign into your GoDaddy account, click on the green "Domains"-button on the left near the top on the front page. Choose "My Domain Names" on the roll-down menu.
Select the domain name you want to change DNS for, and look at the icons on top of the domain list.
Click on the "Nameservers" icon. Click on "Custom Nameservers".
Change the text in the "Nameserver 1:" and "Nameserver 2:" fields. If your hosting company gave you three nameservers change/input the third nameserver in the "Nameserver 3:" field.
Otherwise the fields "Nameserver 3:" and up must be empty!
Using the example above this is what it will look like when you have changed the text:
| Nameserver 1: | NS1.runbox.net |
| Nameserver 2: | NS2.runbox.net |
Now click the orange "OK"-button, and click the orange "OK"-button again.
Congratulations!
You have just changed the name servers.
Note that the new name server data need to propagate across the Internet structure around the world, and this can take from a few minutes to a day or two.
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