{"id":1128,"date":"2020-12-21T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/12\/21\/4739446-how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostgator\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:50:58","slug":"4739446-how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostgator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4739446-how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostgator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Point a Domain to HostGator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">To point your domain to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">HostGator<\/a><\/b>, you need to complete two main steps:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Gather your HostGator nameservers: you can find them in the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/help\/article\/how-do-i-point-my-existing-domain-to-hostgator\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Welcome email, Customer Portal, or cPanel<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Copy the given nameservers, and specify them in 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>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><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 <b>HostGator<\/b> &#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\/4410748-how-to-manage-dns-zone-on-hostgator\" 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.hostgator.com\/help\/article\/how-do-i-point-my-existing-domain-to-hostgator\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">How Do I Point My Existing Domain to HostGator?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing a domain to HostGator 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-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointing-domain-to-external-services"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4739446-how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostgator\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4739446-comment-faire-pointer-un-domaine-vers-hostgator\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4739446-bagaimana-cara-mengarahkan-domain-ke-hostgator\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4739446-como-apontar-um-dominio-para-hostgator\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","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=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}