How to Change Name Server in GoDaddy – Guide

You may have a domain name registered via GoDaddy and wanted to host that domain name on our Premium Cloud SSD shared hosting servers.

For that, you will have to change the Name Server in GoDaddy.

You will have to change your domain’s nameservers once you’ve subscribed to one of our affordable shared web hosting plans.

After you make the DNS value changes, the domain will get pointed to our server and start serving your website.

What Is a Nameserver?

I will explain a Nameserver in easy words; I will try not to use any technical terms.

A Nameserver is a bridge between the domain registrar’s network and the web hosting service provider’s network.

Imagine you have registered the domain name example.com from GoDaddy. You choose to host the website on Rovity’s cloud servers.

When a visitor is trying to see your website, he will use browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

As soon as the visitor type example.com and hit the Enter key, the browser will connect with the domain name example.com.

The browser will first request the domain name registrar to retrieve some preliminary information about the domain name example.com.

Details like nameserver, IP Address of the host server, etc., will have the browser ready.

The DNS Manager, often your domain name registrar, will tell the browser that example.com’s nameserver value is ns.host.com and ns.host.com is hosted with The Web Host Company.

Now that the browser has the information about the nameservers of the domain example.com. It can communicate with the network that manages and hosts the ns.host.com.

It would be the server that you choose to host your website files for the domain example.com.

At this point, the browser will fetch all the requested and allowed files to display the website via the browser’s window.

Don’t worry; all of these processes will happen in a few milliseconds.

That means you can easily change the name server in GoDaddy.

Now let’s change the nameserver of your domain name.

Login to Your Godaddy Account

Since you register your domain from Godaddy, you need to login into your Godaddy account to change the nameserver. Don’t worry; it will not take more than a minute.

As soon as you logged in, you will mostly land in your My Products section. There you will see your registered domains listed.

Now click on the DNS button of your domain name, which we will change the nameserver value.

Now Let’s Change the Name Server in GoDaddy

Suppose you haven’t changed the nameserver of your domain name. In that case, your domain will be using the default nameserver details of GoDaddy.

Now, click on the Change button.

Select Custom from the Choose your new nameserver type drop-down menu.

You will have two empty text fields to input your new nameserver there.

What Is My New Nameserver From Rovity?

To know your nameserver value for the web hosting account you subscribed to, please check your email. The email subject line would be Your New Hosting Account is here.

Please open the email and scroll down to find your Nameserver details under the Server Information section.

An example Nameserver details are:

Nameserver 1: ns1.rovity.io
Nameserver 2: ns2.rovity.io

Please copy and paste both nameserver values in the empty text field we have seen under your GoDaddy account.

Click the Save button after you have added both nameserver values.

How Long Will It Take Finish the Nameserver Changes?

Please note that it may take up to 24 hours to reflect your nameserver changes across the globe.

But, often, nameserver record changes will propagate in a few minutes.

The nameserver changes nowadays will propagate much faster.

But sometimes, it will not reflect at your end so quickly. That would be because of the DNS caching of your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Interestingly, sometimes, your mobile browser will display contents from your old server. And your personal computer shows your website from your new server.

This difference would usually be because of your ISP’s DNS cache.

How to Verify Your Nameserver Changes?

Once you change the name server in GoDaddy, you may check it to avoid any mess.

To check your nameserver propagation, visit whatsmydns.net or DNSMap.

Type your domain name in the search box and choose NS from the drop-down menu.

You will see your domain’s current nameservers across the internet.

You might even see both previous and new values used by various test networks on this website.

Please wait until every test servers use the same nameserver value.

Have you registered your domain name from BigRock? See our How to Change Nameserver in BigRock guide.

Once you confirm the Nameserver changes, you can Install SSL Certificates From DirectAdmin.