In my earlier guide on Bluehost Addon domain, I mentioned about how easy it is to point a domain from any domain registrar to Bluehost by changing the Domain Nameserver. For many users who are not technical, find it hard to follow the instruction without a clear screenshot.
Therefore, Here I’m sharing a quick guide on pointing domain from Godaddy domain panel to Bluehost. Let me out the situation in layman language:
- You just bought a hosting from Bluehost
- You have a couple of domains on Godaddy, and you want to point your domain to Bluehost and Host your site on Bluehost.
The process is very simple, and all we need to do it update the Name server of the domain on Godaddy to point to Bluehost.
Later use Bluehost addon domain service to add these domains to your Bluehost account. By the end, your domain will still be on Godaddy, but you can install Website on them using Bluehost hosting.
Quick guide on pointing GoDaddy Domain to Bluehost
To get started, log in to your GoDaddy account, and go to domain manager section. Select the domain that you want to host/point to Bluehost. Launch the domain manager, and you will see a screen like this.
Under Nameservers tab, click on Manage, select Name Servers type as custom, and change Nameserverservers to point to Bluehost Name server.
Here are the default Nameservers of Bluehost:
- NS1.Bluehost.com
- NS2.bluehost.com
Your final screen will look like this:
Now, it will usually take 5 minutes to-4 hours for changes to reflect globally. Meanwhile, you can quickly add this domain to your Bluehost account, install WordPress and make your site ready for the launch.
Be it GoDaddy, NameCheap, Google domains or any other domain registrar, the process is going to be the same.
If you are using any other domain registrar, and facing issues with pointing domain from your Domain registrar to your Bluehost account, Do let me know via comment, and I will give you the solution for the same.
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Edson says
I have a domain registered with some registrant. I did the DNS’s change days ago, but I still couldn’t access to the web page. The registrant told me that this happen because my hosting (bluehost) has to authorize this.
Is like bluehost DNS are blocking or not authorizing the consulting or something like that.
Could you help me please.
Thanks in advance.
manuskaflowers says
Hi Edson, I don’t have the answer but I have the same problem I Think… just pointed my domain (GoDaddy)to Bluehost and now I can’t access my blog. It gives me privacy error
Hopefully someone can help here! Please π
Maheshkumar says
Really interesting article about redirect Godaddy domain name to Bluehost..This takes 5 minutes redirect the domain to web host account..Thnaks
sdelcharco says
I am brand new to self hosting. I mean BRAND new! I had purchased my domain name on godaddy and then paid for hosting on Blue Host but didn’t know what to do after that. After googling, I found this post and followed it. It worked! Thanks so much!!
Johnny says
Your instructions worked perfectly for me! I don’t use GoDaddy that often, so I find navigating around in the Admin panel to be a little quirky. Your post made changing the Named servers a breeze.
Harsh Agrawal says
@Johny
Happy to help. π
domdp says
Thanks again for the help here saved me a headache.
Stephen Hughes says
THANKS – I DELETED EVERTHING BY MISTAKE – technology just passed be by…!
I still own the DOMAIN, so I’ve redirected it to a new HOST! with your help!!
THANKS!
Luke Hanson says
I have paid for the domain on godaddy, is it a good move to then pay to use bluehost to use wordpress and redirect from godaddy. Also am I paying for the domain on godaddy and hosting on bluehost ? I’m a bit new to all this.
Luke Hanson says
Is it the best option to pay for the domain on go daddy and pay for hosting on bluehost, so I can use wordpress efficiently?
Jass says
My domain is on bigrock, so how should i do it? What IP should i put in Child Name Servers?
Kumar says
Without knowing, I bought hosting in in.bluehost.com instead of bluehost.com… I bought a pro hosting package (Supports more than one website) with the domain name
Now, I want to add another domain to the hosting. I bought it from godaddy and is planning to host it through in.bluehost.com. The option which you showed above are for bluehost and I would be happy if you can help me in saying the new domain hosting isteps n in.bluehost.com
Harsh Agrawal says
@KUMAR
Have you made that purchased knowingly or unknowingly? Right now I don’t have any tutorial for Bluehost India, but will soon add a tutorial on the same.
Kumar says
Unknowingly Harsh… I thought Bluehost India is a Bluehost owned Indian version (I want to pay in INR and when I saw Bluehost India, I thought they were offering it in India.) Unfortunately, it was not the thing.
Will be waiting for your tutorial on Bluehost India.
sadeer12 says
what if I have a plus plan and I want to refer to only one of my hosted websites how to do that?
Marvi says
I have my domain registered with Godaddy and have a website there. I plan to transfer the entire site to Blue Host but leave the registration with GoDaddy since it has a few years left. How do I transfer the content of my website from GoDaddy to Blue Host?
Harsh Agrawal says
@Marvi
What’s the platform are you using? Is it WordPress or a normal HTML Website?
Abhisit says
I can’t change the name server.
It keeps on saying this “You entered invalid characters. Valid characters include letters, numbers, and periods.”
Help please.
Harsh Agrawal says
@Abhisit
If you are copying name-server from one place to another, ensure there is no space added. Better manually type the Name-server & let me know how it goes. If it doesn’t work, do paste a screenshot of what you are doing.
Amanda says
Harsh,
I edited the “settings” page to direct my domain (from GoDaddy) to Bluehost. I also (before reading this post) deleted ALL NS (Nameserver) from the DNS Zone File tab. Should I also place the Bluehost addresses (NS1.Bluehost.com
NS2.bluehost.com)
There as well?
Harsh Agrawal says
@Amanda
Yes you need to add those 2 nameserver.
One question. What do you meant by “I edited the βsettingsβ page to direct my domain (from GoDaddy) to Bluehost.”
Vanessa says
Thank you for the up-to-date, clearly explained and informative post!
I completed the nameserver update in Godaddy to point to Bluehost, it’s been 20 minutes on the site still displaying a generic Godaddy page, so it must really vary between 5min and 4 hours.
witmarshall says
That’s the only issue I ran into, thanks! This was perfect.
louise says
I’ve just attempted this and now waiting to see if it’s worked – thank you (i hope π )
G.Mohan Prasad says
Great Info and help Harsh
Harsh Agrawal says
@Mohan
Happy to help. Looking forward to hearing much more from you.
Jasreen says
hello
i am trying to build a website. i recently bought a website from godaddy.com and i am planning to buy web hosting services from bluehost.com… i intend to design the website on wordpress… Can you help me out please? thanks π
Sowmay Jain says
Great helped me alot. Struggling a lot to point godaddy domain to bluehost. Made it simple by this post.
Thanks
Ikomrad says
Will these instructions work for me? My domains email is hosted by Microsoft Exchange online, and I gave the permission to update godaddy’s dns serves to point mx records to their servers. My Web site will be hosted at Bluehost. If I follow your instructions, will my domains email still work?
Harsh Agrawal says
@Ikomrad
Your email should work.
vivek says
Hi have domain & hosting (abc.com) at godaddy, domain & hosting (123.com) at bluehost.
I planned to have emails 123@123.com pointing to bluehost mail server. How it can be done?
Awais says
I did all procedure when i install wordpress on that domain it says plz help
We noticed the domain you are installing at is not set up yet with your hosting provider.
We can still install this, then once your domain is set up you will be able to see your installation.
Harsh Agrawal says
@Awais
I believe you need to wait for Name server replication if you have already updated the Nameserver.
Kek Seow says
Hi Harsh,
Your guide has been of tremendous help and I have succesfully pointed my Godaddy Domain to BlueHost. However, I also want to use BlueHost for emails using that domain name. How can I do that? Do I need to adjust any settings (MX Records etc)? Right now, I can only receive, but cannot send email on BlueHost. I am rather new to this.
Harsh Agrawal says
@Kek
you need to set up MX record. You can do that from Bluehost cPanel (if I’m not wrong). Let us know how it goes for you.
Mike says
Hi…I have godaddy hosting & weebly for the site. I’d like to transfer Bluehost/wordpress, is there any easy way or do I have to transfer domains and migrate the site? Any help is much appreciated!
Md. Sayed Ali says
I need to know how to point from namecheap.com to bluehost.
Kalen says
I wish you would have covered what’s done on the Bluehost side. I’m not sure how to tell the GoDaddy domain to target a specific one at Bluehost.
rajsramblingsj says
I have a domain and hosting on godaddy, and i bought a new domain on bluehost along with hosting.
Now I just want to move my website files to new website.
When I tried moving entire domain its asking for a price, but I dont want to move entire domain just the files only.Is it possible? and If yes can you tell me how?
Rajpal Singh says
is bluehost cloud hosting nameservers are different from ns1.bluehost. com, ns2.bluehost. com.
Today morning my friend migrated to bluehost cloud hosting and updated nameservers to ns1 & ns2.bluehost.com but its not working.
is there a problem with nameservers or we should check other thinks.
reply quickly if you can suggest something in this.
Umapathy says
Hi
I bought my domain on Godaddy a few days ago and I have paid for the hosting on Bluehost and I need to now point it to Bluehost. I have launched the domain manager, but unable to see the screens mentioned on your blog.
There is another which says click on the connect button under ,connect to an existing site and then choose from options or type in the url
Would this then point to Bluehost
Umapathy