Manage Domain Connections: Everything You Need to Know

A smooth user experience and continued functionality of your website are guaranteed by managing domain connections, which keeps your domain and hosting in sync and promptly fixes any problems that could interfere with your online presence. Learn more about how to manage domain connections.

In this article, we will discuss:

• What are Domain Connections?
• Benefits of Managing Domain Connections
• Adding a New Service
• Disconnecting a Service
• Review

What are Domain Connections?

Domain Connections are the products and services (email, website, web forwarding, etc.) you can attach to a domain name. Connecting your domain to your website, email, or forwarding is just a few clicks away using our enhanced Domain Connections tool.

Benefits of Managing Domain Connections

Effective domain connection management keeps your website up to date and functional, improving user experience all around. By taking this preventive measure, you can avoid future disruptions brought on by hosting problems or expired domains, guaranteeing an efficient and steady online presence. Choose a topic below to watch a video tutorial in connecting different services to your domain name.

• Connect Domain to a Hosting Package
• Connect Domain to Nameservers
• Connect Domain to a New Website
• Connect Domain to an “Under Construction” Page
• Connect Domain to Website Builder

Adding a New Service

For you to learn on how to manage domain connections with Web.com, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.web.com/my-account/login.
2. On the left side of the page, select Domains.
   

   Note: If you have multiple domain names on the account, select the domain name you want to manage.

3. Expand the Domain Connections section by clicking on it.
   
    
4. The Domain Connections page will show.
   • To connect your domain to a website, click on + CONNECT WEBSITE.
   • To connect domain to an email service, click on + CONNECT EMAIL.
   • To connect domain name to a hosting service, click on + CONNECT HOSTING.
     
      

     Note: Under the Connected Services, you can find all the connections in this table. For you to check the domain connections and to manage it, click on the MANAGE button beside it.

5. Select the service(s) you wish to connect to.
6. Upon continuing further, the new service will be connected to your domain.

The new service is connected to your domain. Please allow 24-48 hours for the connection to update throughout the internet.

Disconnecting a Service

Follow the steps below on how to disconnect a service.

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.web.com/my-account/login.
2. On the left side of the page, select Domains.
   

   Note: If you have multiple domain names on the account, select the domain name you want to manage.

3. Expand the Domain Connections section by clicking on it.
    
4. Under the Connected Services table, select the service that you want to disconnect.
5. Click MANAGE.

You may now disconnect the service from the domain name on this page.

Note: You can also view a video tutorial on how to disconnect a domain name from a website package.

Review

This article describes how maintaining your domain connections keeps your website functioning properly and guarantees a seamless user experience. It goes through the definition of domain connections, the advantages of maintaining them, how to use Web.com's Domain Connections tool to add new services, and how to disconnect existing ones. This also includes video tutorials for specific connection services and emphasizes the importance of allowing 24-48 hours for connection updates to propagate across the internet.