If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your GoDaddy DNS records accordingly, we share three ways to do that:
Please Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend using the A Record Method.
Alternatively: If you’d like to manage DNS at Pressable, please get in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Domain Setup Wizard
Please Note: Pressable has a Domain Setup Wizard option, which makes connecting your GoDaddy domain to your Pressable site a breeze! Learn more here.
Pointing GoDaddy Nameservers to Pressable
Log into your GoDaddy account and navigate to your domain manager.
Press the “DNS” button to the right of your domain name.
Scroll down to the section on Nameservers. Press the blue “Change” button.
You will need to then select “Enter my own nameservers (advanced)”
Enter Pressable’s nameservers in the provided fields and then press Save:
- ns1.openhostingservice.com
- ns2.openhostingservice.com
- ns3.openhostingservice.com
- ns4.openhostingservice.com
- ns5.openhostingservice.com
Read GoDaddy’s guide on how to update nameservers here:
https://www.godaddy.com/help/set-custom-nameservers-for-domains-registered-with-godaddy-12317
Once the Nameservers are updated, you can manage the DNS records of domain with us.
Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Pointing GoDaddy A Records to Pressable
Log into your GoDaddy account and navigate to your domain manager.
Press the “DNS” button to the right of your domain name.
Locate your current DNS records, which will look similar to the following:
Modify the existing A record, with the name of @, to point to one of your Pressable IPs.
Click “Add”, and create another record where your host is “@”, your IP is “199.16.173.41”, and TTL (time to live) is “1/2 Hour”:
Once saved, your records should look like this:
In some cases, the “www” record may be a separate A record, and not a CNAME record. In other words, rather than having “@” as its value, it will have an IP address; in our example, 199.16.172.147.
In this case, you can either remove the “www” record and create a CNAME (as above), or you can change the IP address and add a new one, similarly to what was done for the “@” record above. It may look something like this:
Read GoDaddy’s guide on how to update A records here:
https://www.godaddy.com/help/change-an-a-record-19239
Add Your Domain at Pressable
After you have updated the DNS settings at your registrar using one of the methods listed above, you will need to add your domain to your Pressable site. However, if you use the Domain Setup Wizard option it will automatically add the domain for you.
(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate
This step will only apply if you added your domain on the Pressable control panel (Step two) a considerable amount of time before pointing the domain via DNS (Step one). If this is the case, you may find that your site doesn’t have an SSL certificate and you will need to re-provision one. You can do that from the Domains tab on your control panel.
Click the Actions button to the right of your domain, then click Retry SSL:
If you already have a valid SSL certificate you may see an error message, but if your site does not yet have a valid certificate this should generate one. You only need to click the icon once, we will include all secondary domains attached to the site in the certificate.
If you are still having trouble with SSL not working as expected please contact our support team for further assistance.
Yoast Indexables
If Yoast (Yoast SEO or Yoast SEO Premium plugins) is used on a website and a domain is added or changed (new site, cloned site, etc) without taking steps afterward, it can result in the staging domain or previous domain showing in search results. Please follow the information here to ensure the proper domain is reflected within search results.