If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your Register.com DNS records accordingly, we share three ways to do that:
Please Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend using the A Record Method.
Alternatively: If you’d like to manage DNS at Pressable, please get in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Domain Setup Wizard
Pressable has a Domain Setup Wizard option, which makes connecting your Register.com domain to your Pressable site a breeze! Learn more here.
Pointing Register.com Nameservers to Pressable
Log into your Register.com account and navigate to the Domains tab.
Press the “Settings” button to the right of the domain you want to point to your Pressable site.
Under the Advanced Tools section, click the “Manage” button next to the Nameservers.
You will need to then delete any other nameservers, and enter the Pressable nameservers in the provided fields:
- ns1.openhostingservice.com
- ns2.openhostingservice.com
- ns3.openhostingservice.com
- ns4.openhostingservice.com
- ns5.openhostingservice.com
and then press Save as shown below –
Once the Nameservers are updated, you can manage the DNS records of the domain with us.
Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the nameservers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Pointing Register.com A Records to Pressable
Log into your Register.com account and navigate to the Domains tab.
Press the “Settings” button to the right of the domain you want to point to your Pressable site.
Under the Advanced Tools section, click the “Manage” button next to the Advanced DNS Records.
Modify the existing A record/s, with the name of @, to point to one of your Pressable IPs.
In the Edit pop-up, replace the existing IP with your Pressable site IP and click “Edit” to confirm.
Click “+ Add Record”, and create another record where your host is “@” and points to your second Pressable site IP. Similarly, add a CNAME record for your “www” subdomain pointing to your domain as shown below:
Once saved, your records should look like this:
In some cases, the “www” record may be a separate A records, and not a CNAME record. In other words, rather than having the domain as its value, it will have IP addresses.
In this case, you can either remove the “www” record and create a CNAME (as above), or you can change the IP address and add a new one, similarly to what was done for the “@” record above. It may look something like this:
Add Your Domain at Pressable
After you have updated the DNS settings at your registrar using one of the methods listed above, you will need to add your domain to your Pressable site. However, if you use the Domain Setup Wizard option it will automatically add the domain for you.
(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate
This step will only apply if you added your domain on the Pressable control panel (Step two) a considerable amount of time before pointing the domain via DNS (Step one). If this is the case, you may find that your site doesn’t have an SSL certificate and you will need to re-provision one. You can do that from the Domains tab on your control panel.
Click the Actions button to the right of your domain, then click Retry SSL:
If you already have a valid SSL certificate you may see an error message, but if your site does not yet have a valid certificate this should generate one. You only need to click the icon once, we will include all secondary domains attached to the site in the certificate.
If you are still having trouble with SSL not working as expected please contact our support team for further assistance.
Yoast Indexables
If Yoast (Yoast SEO or Yoast SEO Premium plugins) is used on a website and a domain is added or changed (new site, cloned site, etc) without taking steps afterward, it can result in the staging domain or previous domain showing in search results. Please follow the information here to ensure the proper domain is reflected within search results.