{"id":1125,"date":"2020-12-21T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/12\/21\/4739453-how-to-point-a-domain-to-ionos\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:56:10","slug":"4739453-how-to-point-a-domain-to-ionos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4739453-how-to-point-a-domain-to-ionos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Point a Domain to IONOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">To point your domain to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ionos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">IONOS<\/a><\/b>, <b>log in <\/b>to your <b><a href=\"https:\/\/login.ionos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">IONOS account<\/a> <\/b>and navigate to the <b>Domains &amp; SSL<\/b> section. Once there, click on <b>Set up existing domain<\/b>, enter your domain name, and select <b>1&amp;1 IONOS Name server<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Copy the given nameservers, and add them to your <b><a href=\"\/support\/1696789-how-to-change-nameservers-at-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">domain&rsquo;s DNS zone<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you do that, <b><a href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">DNS propagation<\/a><\/b> will start. This process can take <b>up to<\/b> <b>24 hours<\/b>. During this time, it&rsquo;s expected that your website won&rsquo;t work, but give it some time, and it will get online soon.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Now you know how to point your domain to IONOS &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If your domain is pointed elsewhere by NS records, your <b>DNS zone<\/b> is also <b><a href=\"\/support\/4410602-how-to-manage-dns-zone-on-ionos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">managed from there<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ionos.com\/help\/domains\/set-up-and-manage-an-external-domain-at-11-ionos\/setting-up-an-external-domain-at-11-ionos\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Setting Up an External Domain at IONOS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing a domain to IONOS through Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointing-domain-to-external-services"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4739453-how-to-point-a-domain-to-ionos\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4739453-comment-faire-pointer-un-domaine-vers-ionos-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4739453-bagaimana-cara-mengarahkan-domain-ke-ionos\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4739453-como-apontar-um-dominio-para-o-ionos\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}