Migrating Your Website to Distil Using Domain.com DNS:
Domain.com provides an easy to use and understand DNS system. Migrating your Domain.com domain is a simple process that involves two steps:
- Change your CNAME record for www.website.com to point to a CNAME provided by Distil
- Change your A Record entry for website.com to point to an IP provided by Distil
Editing your www CNAME to point to Distil's Network
- Log in to DomainCentral.
- Select the domain you wish to modify, and click the "+" icon to the left of the domain name.
- Select the DNS tab in the domain settings dialog that appears.
- From the Modify drop-down, select CNAME Alias
- Enter www.yourwebsite.com.distil.us
- Enter the domain to which you wish to redirect. In this case that would be www.yourwebsite.com
- Click Add
- To edit a setting, select Edit from the Actions drop down next to the setting
- To delete an alias, select Remove from the selected setting's Action drop down
Editing your root domain yourwebsite.com A Record to point to Distil's Network
- Log in to DomainCentral.
- Select the domain you wish to modify, and click the "+" icon to the left of the domain name
- Select the DNS tab in the domain settings dialog that appears
- From the Modify drop-down, select A Record
- To add an A Record, enter the Host(your domain) and the IP address provided to you by Distil in either the Add Domain wizard in the portal or through your deployment email.
- To modify a setting, select Edit or Remove from the Action drop down of the setting
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