My website shows with a ap address but not with my godaddy domain name

Posted on December 30, 2022

By ffd5e0f5c19448eab7610e36c7fe66

This was my first touch with Digitalocean and I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2PLyFqCzE

I did all this about 27hours ago, and still cant access to my website with domain name, only with ip address.

Is this tutorial good or is there something else I need to do?

When I call whois <domain_name> it says that name server is “NS41.DOMAINCONTROL.COM”

This tutorial was what I followed to add my godaddy domain to my DO: https://www.websitebuilderinsider.com/how-do-i-link-my-godaddy-domain-to-digitalocean/

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Bobby

January 3, 2023

Hi there,

It sounds like that your Nameservers are still not updated. What I could suggest is:

Go to your GoDaddy account and check if your nameservers are actually set to the DigitalOcean ones, eg: ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, ns3.digitalocean.com.
If your nameservers are set to the DigitalOcean ones, but when running whois you still see the GoDaddy ones (eg. “NS41.DOMAINCONTROL.COM”), I would recommend reaching out to the GoDaddy support team for further investigation.

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby

alexdo

January 3, 2023

Hello @terokeranencoral

If you’re using Godaddy’s nameservers (manage the DNS zone from there) you need to add the DNS records in their control panel.

If you want to add the domain name to your DigitalOcean account and manage the DNS records from your DO account, you need to use DitialOcean’s nameservers.

You can check our tutorial on how to point your domain name

https://docs.digitalocean.com/tutorials/dns-registrars/

Regards