After purchasing your domain name, you’ll need to choose where to direct traffic by setting up your Name Servers. This video covers how to set up your Name Servers in the Namecheap Dashboard.
You can get your Name Servers from any of the different DNS providers you might decide to use, including your Domain Name Registrar (usually provides default Name Servers), a hosting company, a DNS hosting provider, or a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
After setting your Name Servers at your Domain Registrar, you can manage your DNS Zone, specifying the servers where different types of traffic should be directed for your domain.
Watch the next video for more about getting your Name Server records and How to Setup Cloudflare – Part 3 of Setting up a New Domain with WordPress:
https://youtu.be/2u1QbF2roSM
In later videos, I cover how to configure DNS Records.
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Transcript:
Hey everyone! This is Brandon from Gaucho Plugins, the development team behind Domain Mapping System.
In the last video, I purchased a new domain name for my WordPress website.
For every new domain, the first step is properly directing incoming traffic by configuring DNS Records, and specifically, Name Server Records.
In this video, I’m going to explain a bit about what Name Server Records are, why they’re important, and show you how you can configure Name Server Records after buying your domain.
Name Server records are a special type of DNS record that specifies the DNS Zone for your domain, which is where all the traffic for your domain will be directed.
The DNS Zone is where you’ll manage all of your other DNS Records, like A Records, CNAME Records, and more.
You might decide to manage DNS Records with your Domain Registrar, a hosting company, a DNS hosting provider, or a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
In this case, I’m using a CDN, Cloudflare, for managing DNS.
In the next few videos, I’ll share why I like Cloudflare, how to get your Name Server records during their setup process, and how to configure all the other DNS Records you’ll need for your website.
But, since I’ve already set up my domain with Cloudflare, I have the proper Name Servers I need for the purposes of this video.
Here’s the Namecheap Dashboard, where I can manage all of my domains.
Next to my new domain, I’ll click Manage.
Then, I’ll scroll down to Name Servers.
The Name Server records are currently set to the default Namecheap records because I just purchased the domain, so I’ll select Custom DNS in order to set the Name Server Records from Cloudflare.
I’ll paste in the Cloudflare Name Servers, and then I’m done!
Because of the time it takes for servers around the world to recognize DNS changes, it may take up to 24-48 hours to see the effects at your location.
However, generally propagation happens within a few minutes to a few hours.
Tune into the next video, where I cover setting up your domain on Cloudflare and getting the Name Server records you’ll need to direct traffic to their CDN.
