STEP 18: Click on ‘Save.’ Once again, you’ll get a message that says, ‘Custom records are saved.’ And now you’ll see that you have two custom records in Google Domains. STEP 17: Click in the text field and paste in the number that GoDaddy gave you. Highlight and copy the number then head back over to Google Domains. STEP 16: Return to GoDaddy to get the number that they gave you to create the text record.

Click on ‘Type’ and this time, scroll down to ‘TXT’ and click on it. Again, you will leave the hostname, blank. You are going to create the text record that GoDaddy told you to create. What you want to do is click on ‘Create New Record’ under the ‘Hostname’. Once back on the custom records page, you will see the, ‘A’ record that you just created. Create a text record with the following information (that GoDaddy shows you), then come back here (to GoDaddy) and recheck your SSL status.” STEP 15: Go back over to Google Domains. So log in to the provider (meaning the domain provider, which in this case, is Google). After following the steps above, your domain name automatically becomes your primary domain and GoDaddy will show you a long message that says “You need to verify domain ownership to set up SSL. You will get a message that the record has now been created. Then click on, ‘Save’ to save the record. Now, type all of the information that GoDaddy gave you into each of the fields. So you really don’t need to enter anything in there – as long as you are on the page to manage that particular domain. The hostname is actually the same as the domain name.

Google Domains is actually going to ask you for a hostname.

GoDaddy calls the Data field Value (just remember that.The Type is the type, as it says in GoDaddy.STEP 13: Once you are back on Google Domains’ DNS page, you will see that some of the fields look different from what you saw on GoDaddy. You will also need to put the IP address that GoDaddy gives you. You’re going to put something in the name field which GoDaddy has given you. When you go back to Google Domains’ DNS page, you will enter the record type, which is A. Again, to the right of ‘Domains,’ click on ‘Add’ then ‘New Primary Domain.’ STEP 11: Type or paste in the domain name and click ‘Add Domain.’ STEP 12: GoDaddy has now created a new DNS record for you. STEP 9: Scroll down until you see ‘Domains.’ Click on ‘Add’ to the right of Domains.’ STEP 10: Click on ‘New Primary Domain.’ If you’ve watched the video, you have seen that the WordPress website that I referenced is being hosted on a temporary domain. To the right of the Managed WordPress Hosting, click on ‘Manage.’ STEP 8: Click on the ‘Settings’ link in the top navigation. Then click on ‘My Products.’ This will bring you to the ‘All Products and Services page.’ STEP 7: Look for your Managed WordPress Hosting. Once on GoDaddy, click on your name in the upper right-hand corner. STEP 6: Head over to your Godaddy account. Over on the left, you will see ‘DNS.’ Click on DNS. STEP 4: To the right of the domain that you want to link to your website, click ‘Manage.’ STEP 5: You should now be on the domain overview page. STEP 2: On the Google Domains, page, click on ‘Transfer a Domain You Already Own.’ STEP 3: Once you’re in Google’s Domain panel, look over to the left and click on ‘My Domains.’ You will now see all the domains that you own over on the right side of your Google dashboard. Make sure that you are logged in to the Google account, where your domains are hosted.

Are you ready? Here are the steps to adding your Google Domain to your GoDaddy hosted website: STEP 1: Go to domain.google. If you’d rather WATCH the video, click on the play > button above. I will walk you through the entire process to make sure your WordPress website is connected, up and running and your SSL certificate is activated. In this post, I am going to show you how to add a Google Domain to GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Hosting. Did you purchase Managed WordPress Hosting in GoDaddy, but have your domains in a Google Domains account? Need to know how to connect the two? No worries.

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