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Notify your Web Host of your Domain Name.

You may know your Domain Name when you arrange for hosting, but if you are setting up hosting before you have a Domain Name, you will have to come back with that info later.

What you receive from your Web Host will be the nameserver information. This is the information that you will have to give to your domain name Registrar. The Web Host will also give you information about your web site's Control Panel, where to find it and how to log in to it.

They will probably provide you with other information such as how to setup your email account names and passwords, how to get your email through your email client (Outlook or Thunder, for instance).

Notify your Domain Name Registrar about the Name Servers.

You give them the address of the hosting company’s  nameservers (usually two of them) . The name servers addresses will have names like other web sites. Here's info for my recommendations:

Your registrar will usually have a special form on their website in which to enter the nameserver information. You usually find it under something like “Manage Your Domain”. or "Set NameServers".

The registrar then, will publish this information and it will slowly  travel (propagate) through the Internet. Actually new information is transferred from one connecting device (Routers) to another automatically until it is said to have “propagated” throughout the internet. This just means that anyone can now find your website by typing its address into their browsers.  This propagation process takes from 24 to 48 hours to complete.

The hosting company's nameservers will make the connection to your site.

Depending on whether you got your domain name or Web hosting first, the order may change. But each must have information about the other to make your website work correctly.

Your Web Host must know the domain name that you will use.

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So your Registrar knows the Nameservers and

Your Web Host knows your Domain name.

You’re done. That is, you have your web site’s html pages created, you have them “uploaded” to the webserver. You have a domain name which becomes the address of the site.

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