Hi! Grats on the new domain. If you like, it is perfectly fine keeping the registrar’s DNS name servers and pointing the domain to your Droplet’s IP.

If you want or need to change it later, you can do so at any time, really.

If you do want to manage the DNS records via your DigitalOcean Cloud account, here’s a handy tutorial on doing so:
How To Point to DigitalOcean Nameservers From Common Domain Registrars

Hope this helps and good luck!

Hi! Grats on the domain :)

It’s perfectly OK to keep your registrar’s DNS name servers and just create the record(s) you need to point to your Droplet’s IP. You can always change this later if needed.

However, if you want to manage your Domain in your DigitalOcean Cloud account, you can do that too - DO DNS is very fast and reliable plus the interface is as simple as it could be.

Here’s a tutorial for changing your domain’s name servers to DigitalOcean’s:

How To Point to DigitalOcean Nameservers From Common Domain Registrars

Hope this helps and good luck!

Sorry for the double post earlier - try changing the name servers back.

If you switch to another DNS provider’s name servers, you have to re-create all existing DNS records, too - eg, you would have to re-create any MX records for email.

If you don’t switch name servers, you simply need to add the one A record pointed at your Droplet IP at your existing DNS service provider.