Put your new website on your domain at Network Solutions

Step by step

1. Sign in to Network Solutions

   Go to networksolutions.com/my-account/login. You see Log Into Your Account. Type your User ID (or your account's email address) in the box and click Next. On the next screen, type your password and sign in. If Network Solutions sends you a code by text message or email, type that code.

   

2. If Network Solutions forwards your domain: turn it off

   In the menu on the left, click Domains, then Manage next to your domain. Scroll to the bottom of your domain's page and click Advanced Tools. No Advanced Tools there? Click Revert to old domain view at the top right first.
   Look at Web Forwarding. Do you see an Add Web Forwarding button? Then your domain is not forwarded: go on to the next step. Does it say Forwarding Enabled? Click Manage next to Web Forwarding, then the pencil at the end of the line, then Delete at the top right. Tick the box Yes I want to remove web forwarding from this domain and click Delete. It would otherwise send visitors away from your new site.

3. Open your domain

   In the menu on the left, click Domains. A list of your domains opens. Click Manage at the right end of the line with yourbusiness.com (your own domain). If you have only one domain, its page opens by itself.

   

4. Open the DNS tab

   Your domain's page opens, with tabs across the top. Click DNS. You see DNS Records, a pale orange box that says changes may cut off your email or website, and a list of lines. That is why you change only the three lines in the table above, and leave every other line as it is.

   

5. Remove the old www line

   In the list, find the line with A at the start and www next to it. On many Network Solutions domains it says under construction page. Click the three dots ⋮ at the right end of that line, then Delete, and confirm.
   Is the www line a CNAME instead? Leave it: you change it in the next step. No www line at all? Go on to the next step.

   

6. Add the www line

   Click the blue + Add Record button above the list. A window opens. Set Type to CNAME. Under Refers to, choose www (never @). In Alias to, paste your site's address from the Domain tab of your panel. Leave TTL as it is and click Add.
   Kept a CNAME line with www in the step before? Then click its three dots, Edit, put your site's address in Alias to and click Edit.

   

7. Change the A line for the domain itself

   Find the line with A at the start and @ next to it. Click its three dots ⋮, then Edit. In Points to, delete the numbers and type the A value from the table above. Leave the rest as it is and click Edit.
   Two A lines with @? Change one, then delete the other: three dots, Delete. Leave A lines with other names, like mail or ftp, as they are. No A line with @? Click + Add Record, set Type to A and Refers to to @, and click Add.

   

8. Set the AAAA line

   Many Network Solutions domains already have a line with AAAA and @, at the top of the list. If yours does, click its three dots ⋮, then Edit. If not, click + Add Record and set Type to AAAA and Refers to to @. In Points to, type the AAAA value from the table above. Leave TTL as it is and click Edit (or Add for a new line).
   Network Solutions checks AAAA settings before they start working. It says this can take up to two business days. Until then, your panel does not mark that setting done. There is nothing more for you to do.

   

9. Check it in your panel

   Go back to your panel, open the Domain tab and click Check my settings again. Each setting says done once the internet sees it. Network Solutions says its DNS changes take up to two hours, and the AAAA setting can take up to two business days, as in the step before. We email you the moment your new site shows on your domain.