Guide

Connect a domain to your hosting

A domain has to be connected to your hosting before the website and email work on it. What you do depends on where the domain is registered.

About 4 minutes Applies to hosting at Inleed Updated 6 Nov 2026

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Before you start

Website or email with another provider? Move the content first, and don’t change nameservers until that’s done.

The domain is listed under Services in the client area.

1
Log in to the client area and click Manage next to the domain.
The domain’s page opens.
2
Open the DNS / Nameservers tab.
3
Click Move to hosting account under DNS Records.
If it says Create DNS zone, create the zone first.
4
Choose your hosting account.
5
Click Move to [hosting account].
The domain is added to your hosting, and DNS follows within a minute or two.
6
Log in to DirectAdmin, open Account Manager › DNS Management and check the A records for the domain, www and mail.
Pick the domain first. The records should point to your hosting’s IP address.
The records move unchanged. If they pointed to another server before, they still do.
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Click Edit next to a record that points wrong, enter your hosting’s IP address under Value and save.
The IP address is in the client area under Hosting Specifics.
Change the records here in DirectAdmin, not in the client area.

1
Log in to DirectAdmin, open Account Manager › Domains and click Add New.
2
Enter the domain name under Domain, for example yourcompany.com.
Without www and without http://.
3
Click Create.
The domain is added and gets a DNS zone automatically.
4
At the provider where the domain is, switch to Inleed’s nameservers, or point the domain with 2 A records.
@ and www to the IP address under Hosting Specifics in the client area.

The website shows on the domain. Its email accounts work once it points here.

If you change nameservers, it can take up to 48 hours. A records usually work within a few minutes, sometimes up to an hour.

The website still shows the old site

What to do: Wait a while. If that doesn’t help, check that @ and www point to your hosting’s IP address.

It says the domain already exists

Why: The domain is still on another hosting or client account.

What to do: Remove it or its DNS zone there, then add it again.

The website shows “Not secure”

Why: The SSL certificate can only be created once the domain and www point here.

What to do: Turn it on once they do.

You don’t need to transfer the domain to Inleed. It’s enough that it points here.
You can have as many domains as you like on your hosting, within its disk space.

Email [email protected] or call 08-519 70 666. Say which domain it concerns.