How to point your domain at your website

Lesson 12 of 12, 10 min

About this lesson

Summary

Join your domain to your hosting, step by step, and see your website appear at your own address.

Follow along

Steps

Find the details your host gives you for connecting a domain.
Open your domain's DNS settings and add or change the records.
Add the www version of your address and send it to the main address.
Wait a few minutes, then visit your address to check it works.
If it does not work yet, check the records one at a time and give it a little longer.

In writing

In a few words

To make your domain show your website, you connect the two. Your host gives you a few details, and you enter them in your domain’s DNS settings. It is a bit like telling the post office where you have moved to. Do one change at a time, then wait a few minutes and visit your address to check it works. If it does not work straight away, give it a little longer before changing anything else.

Words explained

DNS settings: the control panel where you tell your domain where to send visitors.

www: the front part some addresses start with. You can set it to take visitors to your main address.