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1. Ben Kittrell - Sun Apr 22, 2007 @ 01:41PM

Updated!

If you already have a domain name through Godaddy, you can still use it with Doodlekit without much trouble.

1. Login to your Godaddy account
2. Click on "My Account" and then "Manage Domains"
3. Check the box next to your domain and click "Nameservers" at the top
4. Click the "Custom Namservers" tab
5. Enter ns1.doodlekit.com for Namserver 1
6. Enter ns2.doodlekit.com for Namserver 2
7. Click Save

These settings may take up to 24 hours to take effect.

1. Login to your Godaddy account
2. Click on "My Account" and then "Manage Domains"
3. Click on the domain name you would like to transfer
4. Click on "Total DNS Control and MX Records"
5. Edit the "www" record under "CNAMES"
6. Change the "Points To" from "@" to "doodlekit.com"
7. Click "OK"

Now setup a forward for when people leave off the "www".

1. Click on "Domains" at the top. (You should be at the "Details" page)
2. Click on the link under "Forwarding".
3. Check "Enabled".
4. Enter you domain name in the "Forward To" field like so - http://www.mydomain.com
5. Check "301 Moved Permanently"
6. Click "OK"

If you would like to setup the Email Aliasing as well, follow these steps from the "Total DNS Control and MX Records" screen.

1. Edit the Priority 0 record under MX (Mail Exchange).
2. Change the "Goes to Address" to mail.doodlekit.com
3. Click OK

2. Ted Daniels - Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 06:22PM

Thank you for the help

3. Windward Technology - Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 12:31AM

I followed the above directions in post #1 and everything works fine when using Firefox but not IE.

IE only works when the full domain is entered: www.domain.com If only domain.com is entered the page is not found. I made sure the forwarding is setup as directed above, but it isn't working.

Any ideas?

4. Ben - Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 05:04PM

I'm going to look back over this and I'll get back to you.

5. Windward Technology - Thu Jan 24, 2008 @ 10:01PM

Ben, any fix for this yet?

6. Ben Kittrell - Fri Jan 25, 2008 @ 09:53AM

Yeah, I sent you an email.

For everyone else, I've updated the instructions.

7. Tracy - Fri Feb 29, 2008 @ 08:28AM

ok purchase it, now what? I don't want to do my website all over again, i like mine. help

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