Your domain is registered with a registrar, for example one.com, Simply.com, GoDaddy or, for .dk domains, Punktum dk. To make it use your hosting here, you change where the domain points. Your registration stays where it is.
The easy way: use our name servers (recommended)
When a domain uses our name servers, everything is set up automatically: website, www, e-mail, and the records that keep your mail out of spam folders. You can edit all records yourself on the DNS page.
- Add the domain on the Websites page if it is not there already.
- Sign in at your registrar and find the name server settings for the domain (sometimes called "DNS servers" or "nameservers").
- Replace the existing name servers with ours:
ns1.ge4.dkns2.ge4.dk
- Save. The DNS page in the panel also shows these under Point the domain at.
It usually takes 1–24 hours before the whole internet uses the new name servers. During that time some visitors see the old site and some the new one. Do not cancel your old hosting until mail and website work here.
The other way: keep your DNS where it is
If your DNS must stay elsewhere, for example because of other services, copy these records from our DNS page to your current DNS provider:
| Record | Name | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A | @ (the domain itself) |
The website's IP address from our DNS page |
| AAAA | @ |
The IPv6 address, if shown |
| CNAME | www |
example.dk. |
| MX | @ |
The mail server, priority 10 |
| TXT | @ |
The SPF record (v=spf1 …) |
| TXT | _dmarc |
The DMARC record (v=DMARC1; …) |
Changes you make on our DNS page then have no effect, because the internet asks your other DNS provider.
Moving e-mail without losing mail
- Create all mailboxes here first, with the same addresses.
- Change the name servers (or the MX record).
- Set up the new account in your mail program next to the old one, see Set up e-mail.
- Keep the old account for a few days and move old mail across by dragging folders in the mail program.
DNSSEC
If DNSSEC is switched on for the domain at your old provider, switch it off at the registrar before you change name servers, or the domain stops working until the change is complete. You can switch DNSSEC on again here afterwards; see DNS records.