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How To Set Your DNS Server Settings

One item that I get questions a lot on is how to set your DNS server for your domain. DNS stands for Domain Name Server. It is really easy to do…as long as you can type a few letters and numbers in a box and hit save

To avoid all the technical mumbo jumbo, in laymen terms, when you purchase a domain, you have to point or direct it to your hosting company so that you can manage it, that is unless you have purchased the domain that includes a hosting account.

Your hosting service is like the engine of your car or the cockpit of a plane. It is how you will control everything that happens behinds the scenes on your domain. The navigational equipment you will use is called Cpanel.

And what does Cpanel stand for? You guessed it! It stands for control panel. No getting around this one. If you want a presence on the web you will need this.

Okay so back to the DNS. Every website is identified by an IP address. When you type in a website address like Google.com for example, what the DNS does is help translates that name into an IP address that the internet understands.

An internet IP address looks something like this: 123.456.7.8

Your hosting service will give you some settings something like this:

NS1.MY-NAME.COM
NS2.MY-NAME.COM

What you will have to do is log into your registrar, which the place where you purchased your domain name, navigate to the appropriate area, and enter those settings. In all likelihood, this should take you about 2 minutes. It is really as simple as typing in those two hosting settings and hitting the save button.

Here is a video showing you how to do it at NameCheap. But it is pretty much the same at any registrar. You are going to want to find the “manage your domains” category, select that domain, and look for the area that says nameserver.

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