Connecting Your Domain to Your Hosting

To make your domain serve your website, point it at the hosting server. There are two common ways to do this — pick the one that matches where your domain is registered.

Option 1: Domain and hosting both at Maxinames

Easiest path. We can set the nameservers for you automatically:

1. Sign in at manage.maxinames.com.
2. Open My Domains and click the domain.
3. Choose Nameservers and pick the option to use Maxinames hosting nameservers.
4. Save. Within a few hours your domain will load your hosted site.

Option 2: Domain elsewhere, hosting at Maxinames

Two sub-options here:

(a) Change nameservers at your registrar

1. Find the Maxinames nameservers in your hosting welcome email (typically ns1.maxinames-host.com and ns2.maxinames-host.com).
2. Sign in to your existing registrar's control panel.
3. Replace the existing nameservers with the Maxinames ones and save.

This delegates DNS management to Maxinames — you can edit records from the cPanel Zone Editor.

(b) Keep DNS at your current provider, just point an A record

If you want to keep DNS where it is (e.g. you use Cloudflare), update only the A record:

1. In your DNS provider's control panel, edit (or create) the A record for @ (the bare domain) and www.
2. Set both to the IP address shown in your hosting welcome email.
3. Save. Changes propagate within an hour or two.

Verify it worked

After waiting for propagation:

• Run dig yourdomain.com — the answer should be the Maxinames IP.
• Open the site in an incognito window.
• If you see a default cPanel placeholder, your domain is connected — install or upload your site.

For a deeper explanation of nameservers vs records, see Managing DNS Records and Nameservers.