Domain Names and Your Website
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      DNS Settings (GoDaddy)

      Point your website's domain name to your new website within GoDaddy.

       

      If you are moving from a tempxxxx address to a new live site with us, please contact us before making the changes below.

      Let Us Take Care of It - Delegate Access

      To make taking your site live as easy as possible, you can delegate access to us from within your GoDaddy account.  This gives us access to your DNS records.  To do this, log in at GoDaddy and click the Account Settings tab.

      • Then click on "Delegate Access".
      • Then click on "+ Invite to Access".
      • Enter the name:  DNS Manager and email address:  dns@smartetailing.com
      • Select Products & Domains.
      • Click Invite.

          Do It Yourself 

          To make the DNS changes yourself, once you are logged into your GoDaddy account:

          • Find your main domain in the domain list and click the "DNS" button.
          • Adjust the A record (@ value) to point to:  35.224.160.69   with a TTL of 600.
          • Adjust the CNAME record (www value) to point to:  frontend-lb.smartetailing.net  with a TTL of 600.
            • DNS changes can take time to propagate across the Internet. They can be monitored here:
              Check A Record Propagation | Check CNAME Record Propagation
            • When you see the screen below the changes are starting to propagate across the internet. If you have not already done so, please contact us so we can complete the changes needed on our end.
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            Secondary Domain Names:

            If you have additional domains that you want pointing to your primary domain, utilize the forwarding tool within GoDaddy:

            • Once logged into your GoDaddy account, find your secondary domain in the domain list and click the "DNS" button.
            • Scroll down to the bottom of the DNS Management page to find the Forwarding section. Click "Add". 
            • image (5)-2In the Forward To drop-down, select http:// and add your primary domain name.
            • Leave Forward Type as "Permanent (301)" and Settings "Forward Only".
            • Don’t be concerned with the “We will update name servers message”, you are already on GoDaddy Name Servers.
            • Click Save.
            • Repeat for each secondary domain.
            • It can take up to 72 hours for the changes to propagate.

             

             

             

            Learn more about DNS records and what they mean in our blog post: Understanding Your DNS Records.  For additional DNS questions our General DNS guide may be of help or feel free to contact us with your questions.