If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your Name.com DNS records accordingly, we share the instructions below.
Domain Setup Wizard
Pressable has a Domain Setup Wizard option, which makes connecting your Name.com domain to your Pressable site a breeze! Learn more here.
Pointing Name.com Nameservers to Pressable
To point DNS records from Name.com to Pressable, you’ll want to log into your name.com account and select the domain name that you wish to edit.
From the overview page click the “Manage Nameservers” link.
Edit the existing nameservers to use the following:
ns1.openhostingservice.comns2.openhostingservice.comns3.openhostingservice.comns4.openhostingservice.comns5.openhostingservice.com
Read name.com’s support article on how to update nameservers.
Note: that 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 Name.com A Records to Pressable
Log into your name.com account, and the select the domain name that you wish to edit. From the domain overview page, select “Manage DNS Records”.
You will want to edit the existing A records for {your-domain.com} and {www.yourdomain.com} to point to one of the Pressable IPs. You will then need to create duplicate DNS records using the other IP address. When done, your DNS records will look similar to the following:
View name.com’s article on how to manage A records.
(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate
If you added your domain on the Pressable control panel before pointing it via DNS, you may need to re-provision the SSL certificate. You can do this from the Domains tab in your control panel by clicking Actions ▼ → Retry SSL.
For detailed steps, visit our SSL Troubleshooting Guide.
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.