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How to connect your domain to other services

How to connect your domain to Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and more

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Written by Garrett Saundry
Updated over a week ago

The use of cloud providers for services such as web hosting continues to grow in popularity. These providers offer cheap, reliable and scalable services which cater to a broad section of Internet users. Examples of cloud providers include: Blogger, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare, Google, Rackspace, Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, Photobucket, and Hubspot.

Forwarding can be achieved through three different means:


SETTING DNS RECORDS WITH EASY CONNECT DNS

Connect to popular services in just a few clicks.

Easy Connect, a feature of all our DNS Hosting plans, allows for the quick connection of many popular services to your domain name. Easy Connect works by prompting for required values and then automatically creating the necessary DNS records to connect to the service. Finally, Easy Connect inserts those records into your DNS configuration for you.

Note that DNS Hosting is a paid service.

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED SERVICES

  • Gmail for Google Workspace

  • Microsoft 365 Email

  • Microsoft 365 Communications Services

  • Shopify

  • Squarespace

  • Weebly

  • Wix

  • Amazon Web Services

NOTE: This option affect the routing of all services for your domain. Ensure that all services for your domain (website, email etc.) are accounted for on these new name servers before switching.


UPDATING THE DNS RECORDS OF YOUR DOMAIN

If you have been given one or more DNS records (A records, CNAME records, MX records etc.), utilize this option to connect your domain to your new service.

Note that DNS Hosting is a paid service

NOTE: This option affect the routing of all services for your domain. Ensure that all services for your domain (website, email etc.) are accounted for on these new name servers before switching.

To access the DNS Management interface for your domain, navigate the following, starting from the Webnames.ca homepage:

  1. Click on the domain you wish to manage

  2. Click on the DNS Hosting Tab

ADDING A RECORDS

  1. Click “Add a Record” in the A Records section (or AAAA Records section).

  2. Enter the host name of your choice in the “Hostname” field, and then enter in the IP address of your server in the IP Address field

  3. Click “Apply Now” at the bottom of the page.

Note: The Hostname field should be left blank for at least one entry, this being the entry for your root domain, e.g. exampledomain.ca. The Hostname field should only be populated when assigning records for subdomains, e.g. subdomain.exampledomain.ca

An additional "@" symbol is not required, but can be used as a shorthand in the targets of CNAME, MX, NS and SRV records as an alias for the root domain.

If the changes were made successfully, you will see the following:

ADDING A CNAME RECORD

  1. Click “Add a Record” in the CNAME Records section.

  2. Enter the host name of your choice in the “Hostname” field, and then enter in the hostname of your server you want to alias to.

  3. Click “Apply Now” at the bottom of the page.

If the changes were made successfully, you will see the following:

ADDING AN MX RECORD

  1. Click “Add a Record” in the MX Records section.

  2. Leave the hostname field blank.

  3. Enter a priority value (Lower numbers means a higher priority.)

  4. Enter the hostname of the mail server in the “Mail Server Name” field

  5. Click “Apply Now” at the bottom of the page.

If the changes were made successfully, you will see the following:



UPDATING THE NAME SERVERS OF YOUR DOMAIN

If you have been given two or three new name servers to assign to your domain (e.g. ns1.yourhostingprovider.com etc.), utilize this option to connect your domain to your new service.

NOTE: This option affect the routing of all services for your domain. Ensure that all services for your domain (website, email etc.) are accounted for on these new name servers before switching. If you have email services with Webnames.ca and would like to retain them, please see this page before updating your name servers.

To access the Name Server Management interface for your domain, navigate the following, starting from the Webnames.ca homepage:

  • Click on the domain in question

  • Under the Domain Configuration heading, click Configure beside Assign Name Servers

  • Enter the name servers to assign to your domain. Typically there are two.

  • Click Apply save your changes

This change will take up to one hour to take effect.

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