Hey everyone, this is Josh here with
Hostgator.,Today I'm going to show you how to change your Name Servers,and point them to your hosting account. Let's get started!,So here we are at portal.hostgator.com. We can log in here to our,customer portal using our email address
and password.,Now let's go here to the left-hand side and click on the Domains section.,Here we can see all the domains that I have registered on my Hostgator account.,if I want to check out a new one I can do that here at Register a Domain.,If I bought a domain somewhere else and I want to
transfer the registration to Hostgator,,I can click up here on the right hand side
to do it as well. So let's take a look at,the 'More' tab and we can see additional
information about this domain.,We've got the Status showing that the domain is Active. Verification is checked which means,that they sent a verification email to my email address
and I clicked 'Verify'.,I do have Privacy turned off and domain
Locking turned on.,I see when I registered it, and when it expires. And I
can see here that I have,Auto Renew turned on so this means about 30 days
before the domain actually expires a new,invoice will pop up on my account so
that I can automatically register this,domain again. This way I never lose it. We can
see here at the top right hand side,we have our Name Servers and these are the most important part,of a domain because they essentially
tell the internet where to look for your content.,You can think of it as your
home address for your domain.,Each plan that you have here with HostGator,
whether it's a Shared account or,Reseller or a Cloud, it's gonna have a different set of Name Servers.,When you register a domain right out of the
gate we're always gonna put these,default Name Servers ns1.hostgator.com and ns2.hostgator.com on there which will actually,point you to a page and give you more
instructions on how to change your Name Servers.,I'll show you how to do this
today, so let's click on 'Change.',Here we have two different
options. We can automatically point the,domain to a hosting account here. Or we
can manually set the Name Servers.,I'll show you how to do it
both ways. If you click the option for,'Automatically point my domain to my
hosting account' it defaults to the,package that you have on your plan. So
I've got one here which is a Shared,hosting account. Click that and it
automatically puts the Name Servers that,I need into the Name Server section. Really no need to go and grab anything extra.,Once I have that set and I'm sure
that's the right package I click,'Save' and after a few moments you'll
notice these bars turn green and,the domain has essentially been pointed
at that time.,Now it will take 24 to 48 hours for your domain to
update across the web.,That's called propagation. As soon as you change
your Name Servers you may not see the,domain take effect immediately.
Sometimes it will take a little bit of time.,Now that you know how to point it
automatically, I'll show you how to grab,your Name Servers in the hosting portal
and also inside the cPanel.,We'll go back up here into the Hosting tab and
we'll take a look at some of the,accounts that I have. I've got two Shared
Hosting plans here, one is a Cloud and,one is a Shared Business Plan. We'll
click on 'Manage' for the plan that I want to look at.,This takes us to a good
option overview so I can see the type of,plan that it is, when it's going to renew,
the current price, and then up here at,the top if I click this question mark (?)
it's actually going to show me the,Name Servers for this account. Now I can copy
this information over if I ever need to,set it manually.
Let's go inside the cPanel for it and,I'll show you how you can get your Name
Servers there as well.,Let's go back to the dashboard. I'll scroll down I can see
my hosting packages here for the Shared,Business account click 'Launch cPanel' and,this will take you directly to your
cPanel back-end. Now if we scroll down,here on the right-hand side, underneath
General Information I can see I have a,primary Name Server and a secondary Name
Server, so I could take these and copy,them in and put them in manually if I
wanted to. Once that is copied over, go,back to our Customer Portal into the
Domains section, go back down and click,'More.' So you can see the Name Server
changes have already been made when I,automatically pointed it, but if I wanted
to set them manually I could always come,in here and paste the ones that I needed
to. That's essentially it.,Once your domain is pointed to your hosting
account then you can start to,set up WordPress, install any CMS that you want
to and really start using your account.,Thanks for watching. If you have
any questions or comments please post,them below, and please subscribe if you
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