Connect a google domains to a third party hosting. (webroot.com/safe)
Setting up a domain name (webroot.com/safe) easier than you may think. Once domain name is registered, you need to connect it to your hosting server.
1. You have a hosting plan with Namecheap.
2. You have a hosting plan else where and you were provided with the name servers for your domain.
3. You were provided with a set of host records to connect the domain to your hosting.
1. You have a hosting plan with Namecheap.
If you have a Stellar, Stellar Plus or Stellar Business plan (or old Value, Professional, Ultimate, Business plan) with us, you need to point the domain to our Web Hosting DNS name servers (dns1.namecheaphosting.com and dns2.namecheaphosting.com). If the domain is registered with Namecheap, it can be easily done in your Namecheap account by below:
1) Sign into your Namecheap account its in the header of the page
2) Select Domain List from the left sidebar and click the Manage button next to your domain in the list:
3) See Nameservers section and select Namecheap Web Hosting DNS from the drop-down menu. then, use the checkmark icon to save changes:
If your domain is registered with another registrar, you will need to obtain the correct name servers from us and then configure the DNS on their side.
If your domain is registered with GoDaddy, follow the steps here.
Once the name servers are changed, your website most likely will not be available. In most cases, the propagation period can take up to 24 hours (in rare cases more, since the caching time varies between ISPs). May, this process cannot be influenced or sped up because of its automatic nature.
NOTE: After setting the nameservers for domain, if the domain is not the main one for your hosting account, you will also need to add it as Addon to your cPanel. You can find a tutorial for that here.
2. You have a hosting plan else where and you were provided with the nameservers for your domain.
To connect a domain to a third party server or hosting plan by nameservers that you received from your hosting provider, you need to set these nameservers as Custom for your domain. You can do that in the following way:
1) After sign in into your account, select Domain Name from the left sidebar and click the Manage button next to your domain in the list. Now find the Nameservers section and select Custom DNS from the drop-down menu:
2) Now enter your hosting nameservers one by one in each line (if you need to set more than 2 nameservers, press the Add nameserver red button). When the nameservers are entered, press the green checkmark to save changes:
NOTE: Some hosting providers may provide with nameservers with IP addresses for them. Entering nameservers would be enough.
3. If, its own server or you were provided with a set of host records to connect the domain to your hosting.
If, you have your own hosting server and you know its IP address, you can set up A records for your domain to connect it to the server. One thing some hosting providers can provide you with the IP address that should be used for your domain for connecting to your hosting plan. A records should be created in that case as well.
Note that same can be done only if the domain is using our BasicDNS/PremiumDNS/BackupDNS (a legacy option) or FreeDNS nameservers. You can set up A records in the following way:
1) After sign in into your account, select Domain List from the left sidebar and click the Manage button next to your domain in the list. Now switch to the Advanced DNS tab at the top of the page:
2) Find the Host records section and click on the Add New Record button (if the option is not available, it means that your domain is not using our BasicDNS/PremiumDNS/BackupDNS(a legacy option)/FreeDNS):
3) Select Record for the Type and enter the Host you would like to point to your server IP address:
– @ should be used as a Host to point your root domain.
– www should be used to set the record. (www.domainname.tld) subdomain
– [customhostname] can be used to set up a subdomain and to point it to your hosting server (for example, Host blog will point blog.domainname.tld to your hosting)
– * should be entered as a Host to set up a wildcard sub domain (meaning it will point all non-existent subdomains to your hosting).
Source: webroot.com/safe
