Connecting your domain name with other DNS providers

If you’ve purchased your domain through a separate domain name server, you’ll need to follow some additional steps to connect it to your website. When you are ready to connect a third-party domain, there are three ways you can do this, which we’ll discuss now. I’m going to explain each option here before walking you through the process.

Individual domain provider support

Please note that I won’t be able to cover the connection processes for all of the DNS providers you may purchase from, but Squarespace support has very good documentation discussing the process for individual companies, available at this link: https://link.signuptolaunch.com/domain-support.

Transferring a domain

When you begin the process of connecting a domain you’ve purchased outside of Squarespace, you may be encouraged to transfer the domain. This means that your domain will now be managed by Squarespace,...