We know this part is horribly technical, but this is something that can't be made any simpler if you host your domain with an external provider. We can also register and manage your domain for you, although you will have to contact us for now.

IMPORTANT: No matter what choice you make for pointing your domain, you must contact us and let us know that you are pointing your domain to our nameservers and which website address you signed up with (e.g. my cooldomain.com or coolstuff.bryght.net).

There are two choices:

1. Use Bryght's nameservers. This is preferred because we can do all the work for you and if Bryght changes or move our servers, we will fix it for you without you needing to be involved

2. Using somebody else's nameservers. Most people don't need this but it does give you more control with the downside being you will have to update the entries in the name servers yourself if Bryght changes or moves its servers.

Using Bryght as your Nameserver

Using Bryght as your Nameserver

Please note that using Bryght as your nameserver is free as long as you host your sites at Bryght.

DNS is how the Internet binds domain names to IP addresses, and in our case, how it binds the domain to our servers. Our nameservers are:

• ns1.bryght.com
• ns2.bryght.com

You will need to add ns1.bryght.com and ns2.bryght.com when you find the section in your registrar to manage your DNS entries, as they are called. Make sure you choose an option that says use "external DNS" or "your hosting provider's DNS servers" or "manage nameservers" or something equivalent.

Once the DNS entries are added, you may have to wait up to 48 hours for the settings to take effect (or, in the technical language, "propagate").

Using somebody else's nameservers

If you are hosting your email elsewhere (e.g. another email provider like FuseMail) then refer to the following section:

Pointing Web Requests to Bryght But Pointing to a Different Mail Server

To point your domain to our servers, you may need to consult your domain registrar's documentation on the subject, but the general information you'll need is as follows:

1. make sure you are using the registrar's DNS
2. look for something like "Edit Host Records" or a page that lets you change or add A name, CNAME, and MX records (these are generally in the same settings page or control panel)
3. create or change the CNAME record for @ (the "at" sign) and www to horse.bryght.com, OR, if you are using the Bryght VPS product, then create or change your A record for @ and www to point to the IP address of your VPS which was provided by Bryght.
4. create or change the MX record to point to your mail server, if you have not already done so.

Once the DNS entries are added, you may have to wait up to 48 hours for the settings to take effect (or, in the technical language, "propagate").

Pointing A Domain Different Than the One You Chose When Creating Your Site

If you created a site and wanted to use a domain different than the URL you chose, then contact us and we can 'rename' your site to match the domain you have registered. You will still need the the steps above, that is, point CNAME records to our servers.