GODADDY - HOW TO CONNECT YOUR DOMAIN
FOR WEBSITE HOSTING AND EMAIL?

Steps to connect the domain with your system

Open the domain panel

Navigate to the domain panel by clicking the “Sites” on the left side menu. Then when you have that page open you will see a link to “Connected Domains” on the top of your page, please click that. 

Now, click on the ‘Add Domain’ button to add your domain with System

Select domain type

The system will allow you to add a free domain or custom domain. For our case, we will select the second option, and put your domain name.

Click on the ‘Next’ button. 

Select services

Now, the system will offer you system services. By default, the Website Hosting service will be enabled.

Enabling email services with this system will not hamper your existing email services.

Please, click on the ‘Next’ button.

Choose faster CDN (optional)

Now, the system will offer you the option to choose a faster CDN for a better web service experience for your users. Please, click on the ‘No, Thank You’ button unless you want a faster CDN for $5/month.

Collect DNS records

Please, wait for a while, the system will provide you with the required DNS records that you need to add to your ionos account.

Separating DNS record

DNS record for Web Hosting

As per the screenshot, the first two records are the DNS record for the web hosting service. Among them, the first one is an ‘A’ type DNS record

DNS record for Email Service

As per the screenshot, the last three records are related to the email services. All of these records are CNAME records.

If you need only one specific service, then you can ignore DNS records related to other services.

Differences Between A and CNAME Records.

Steps to add DNS record to GoDaddy Account

Select domain

After logging in, please, select your concerned domain name.

After opening that domain page, navigate to the bottom of that domain page, and click on the 'Manage DNS' button.

Add a record

Click on the 'Add' button to add DNS records.

Select record type

If you click on the 'Type' dropdown, you will get the option to select different types of records.

To select the proper type of DNS record, you can define that from System-provided DNS records. Please, check the screenshot

Sample format of DNS record

Find the Nameservers section and make sure Namecheap BasicDNS/Namecheap Web Hosting DNS is selected.

Setup Email Forwarding in NameCheap:

‘A’ type of record

Name -> @
Value-> 185.93.1.243
There is no need to change any other default values. Please click on the 'Add record' button to save the record.

‘CNAME’ type of record

You will have to add the CNAME records in the following way.
Name -> em3206
Value -> [u22813504.wl005.sendgrid.net](http://u22813504.wl005.sendgrid.net/)
TTL -> 24 hour

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