Put your new website on your domain at Hostinger
About 15 minutes. You change three settings at Hostinger. Your domain stays where it is and your email keeps working. Your panel checks each setting for you as you make it.
You need one thing: the email and password of your Hostinger account, the one you use to pay for your website or domain there. Hostinger now calls its control panel the Hostinger dashboard; it used to be called hPanel.
The three settings
| Type | Name | Value |
|---|---|---|
| CNAME | www | your site's address — copy it from the Domain tab of your panel |
| A | @ | 137.66.50.77 |
| AAAA | @ | 2a09:8280:1:0:0:1a0:bb93:0 |
@ means the domain itself; some screens call it the "host" or leave it blank. Leave every other setting exactly as it is: your email depends on them.
Step by step
Log in to Hostinger
Go to hostinger.com and click the little person at the top right. It means Log in. Sign in with your Hostinger email and password. Your Hostinger dashboard opens.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. If your website is at Hostinger: turn off Hostinger CDN
Hostinger CDN is a speed service. While it is on, Hostinger locks the settings you are about to change. On the left, click Websites, then Dashboard next to your website. Open Performance, then CDN. If you see a Disable button, click it and wait about five minutes. If you see no Disable button, or your website is not at Hostinger, go on to the next step.
Open Domains, then DNS
On the left, click Domains. A short list opens under it. Click DNS.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Choose your domain
Under Pick a domain to manage, click Select a domain and choose your domain. Hostinger opens its DNS records. At the top you see Manage DNS records; the list of your records is below it.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Delete the old www line
In the Search box above the list, type www. On the line whose Name is www, click the red trash can. Hostinger asks you to confirm: click Delete. If there is also a line of type A named www, delete it the same way. No www line at all? Go on to the next step.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Add the www record
Go back up to Manage DNS records. For Type choose CNAME. In Name type www. In Target paste your site's address from the Domain tab of your panel. Leave TTL as it is. Click Add Record. Hostinger saves the record right away; there is no separate save button.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Delete the old A and AAAA lines for @
Clear the Search box so the whole list shows. Find every line of type A whose Name is @, and every line of type AAAA whose Name is @. Delete each one: red trash can, then Delete. Leave every other line as it is. (If your panel told you to set only the www record for now, stop here and go to the last step.)
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Add the A record
At the top, under Manage DNS records: for Type choose A. In Name type @. In Value paste the A address from the table above. Leave TTL as it is. Click Add Record.
Tap the picture to see it bigger. Add the AAAA record
Same again: for Type choose AAAA. In Name type @. In the box next to it paste the AAAA address from the table above. Click Add Record. Now the list has one A line and one AAAA line named @, both with our addresses.
Check it in your panel
Open the Domain tab in your panel and click Check my settings again. Each setting says done once the internet sees it, often within minutes, sometimes up to an hour. We email you the moment your new site shows on your domain.
Good to know
If your email is at Hostinger and the Domain tab of your panel says your email is delivered to your domain itself, set only the www record for now; we contact you about the email side before the other two.
Do not change your nameservers, or any line of type MX or TXT. Those carry your email.
If you turned off Hostinger CDN in step 2, leave it off. Turning it back on makes Hostinger replace the www and @ records with its own.
Deleted the wrong line? The DNS history tab at the top of the same page lists earlier versions of your settings, each with a Restore button. Or ask in your panel's Help tab and we put it right with you.
Stuck, or not sure?
Open the Help tab in your panel and write what you see, in your own words. We answer within minutes and walk you through it.
Changed your mind? Your panel keeps today's settings. Put them back at Hostinger and your old website returns, usually within an hour. If you turned off a forwarding or a connection on the way, turn it back on too.
Based on Hostinger's own help pages: How to access Hostinger dashboard, How to Manage DNS Records at Hostinger, How to manage CNAME records at Hostinger, Domain does not work with www at Hostinger, How to manage A records at Hostinger, How to manage AAAA records at Hostinger, How to point a domain to external services at Hostinger, Hostinger CDN and your DNS records. The pictures are our own simplified drawings of Hostinger's screens, not copies of them; Hostinger's screens may look slightly different. Hostinger is a trademark of its owner; SiteSmith is not affiliated with Hostinger. Last checked 2026-10-25.