🔃Connecting a Domain to a website
This is otherwise known as 'Pointing'
Connecting a domain located with one company and linking it to a website hosted elsewhere is known as pointing. So if you have a domain 'example.com' hosted with Company One and a website hosted at Company Two, you'll need to 'Point' the domain between companies.
The Basics of Domain Pointing
To understand domain pointing, it’s helpful to keep in mind the key elements you need to set up your website:
a domain name that you bought from a registrar
IP addresses for your website that are provided by your web host
To connect these two elements, you’ll need to share some information with your domain registrar. You’ll need to tell your registrar who does your domain name resolution, which is your web host. Your registrar will also need your name server records from your webhost. This is the information they’ll use to point your domain to your new hosting service.
What is a DNS A record?
The "A" stands for "address" and this is the most fundamental type of DNS record: it indicates the IP address of a given domain. For example, if you pull the DNS records of cloudflare.com, the A record currently returns an IP address of: 104.17.210.9.
Connect to my server
My server IP address is 188.166.174.9
See where a domain is 'Pointing'
If you need to see where a domain name is pointing to, i.e. which IP Address your domain name is to then I would recommend using whatsmydns.net
As you can see my domain name bwrwebdesign.com is 'pointing' to the IP address of my server 188.166.174.9 and you can see which locations where it's setup.
When pointing it won't be showing up all across the globe instantly, it needs time for the informtion to spread across the network.
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