I ran into this same issue and after combining a couple of the answers above, your DNS configuration for example.com should be (with CNAME solving the www. issue):

A –> @ –> IP ADDRESS
CNAME –> * –> example.com.
NS –> ns1.digitalocean.com.
NS –> ns2.digitalocean.com.
NS –> ns3.digitalocean.com.

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I ran into this same issue and after combining a couple of the answers above, your DNS configuration for example.com should be (with CNAME solving the www. issue):

A –> @ –> IP ADDRESS
CNAME –> * –> example.com.
NS –> ns1.digitalocean.com.
NS –> ns2.digitalocean.com.
NS –> ns3.digitalocean.com.

I am facing the same problem as you. I did everything in the tutorial and nothing seems to work. But I wait like an HOUR for this and then it works properly.

So this was my configuration, just as the tutorial in digitalocean here in the “CNAME” section

Enter Name: www

Enter Hostname: @

Hope it helps!!

PD: My droplet has this example name: example.com (or .net if your domain is .net, etc)

We also faced the same problem. What we did was added a page rule using Cloudflare to force non www version to www and it worked like a charm.

go to your DNS control panel and add a new A record.