How your domain gets connected
The installer picks the path from what is on your domain today, and tells you why in one sentence. You can override it under Advanced.
Steps
- No real records yet (new or parked domain): we host the whole domain. You change the name servers once; we carry every record over first.
- Domain on a DNS account we can connect to: you approve one limited token and we write the records there.
- Live site or mail at a host that supports Domain Connect: one approval click at your DNS host.
- Live site or mail elsewhere: three records at your current DNS host, with the name servers untouched. Only enter our servers for the name mail, never as the domain's name servers.
- Want a site on the bare domain (no www)? Choose it when you publish; we point it at our site edge and issue the certificate.
Questions
- Can I move from three records to full hosting later?
- Yes. Domain → Host the whole domain copies your current records first, then hosts them; an existing zone is adopted, not overwritten.
- DNSSEC is on at my registrar.
- Turn it off before any name-server move, or the domain stops resolving. The installer blocks the move until it is off.
Updated 2026-10-02 · llms-full.txt