Lesson Linking your domain with hosting
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If you've purchased your domain name and your hosting from different companies, you need to perform a simple operation to essentially link the two together.
1) Make sure that your hosting account knows that it will be using your particular domain name
Depending on who you're using for your hosting, you might be prompted to enter your domain name when you first sign up for hosting (HostGator) or you might be allowed to purchase hosting without having a domain name first (GoDaddy). If you didn't tell your hosting provider your domain name when you signed up, you will need to log in to your hosting control panel (or similar) and "add" that domain.
If your hosting is already aware of your domain name, this will usually appear in the welcome email they send you, and you can skip this step.
Update your name servers (DNS)
The next thing you need to do (and often this is the only thing you need to do) is change the domain name servers of your domain name to the name...
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