I switched my Domain hosting to Google in order to use their email forwarding services, but I still want to use Netlify for the CD/CI features and linking straight to a github repo for that. However I can’t use the Google Email features without using google DNS. Is there a way to get the best of bot…

Ok, I believe I got it working. I set an A record with just @ as the host to point to the netlify load balancer IP address (104.198.14.52) and I set a CNAME record with ONLY www as the host to point to the netlify subdomain for my website. Now both www.joshbangle.com and joshbangle.com direct to my …

hi @joshbangle , you don’t have to use Netlify DNS in order to use the rest of our features! You can totally use a different DNS service for that. You do need to make sure that the domain is completely transferred, though -if more than one DNS thinks it is handling traffic for your domain, things ge…

Thanks for the response! I originally purchased the domain through Netlify and Name.com (i believe is what it is called), and a few weeks ago transferred the domain to Google Domains. So I’m confused by all of these resources, because most of them talk about pointing your name servers to the Netli…

Hi, @joshbangle , using Netlify DNS is not a requirement to host sites on our service. Netlify NDS is one of two ways. The other is “external DNS”. It sounds like you would prefer the external DNS method and those instructions can be found at the link below: [image] Configure external DNS…

Ok awesome. I went to my Google Domain, switched it back to the Google Name Servers, and then set up 2 CNAME records, one with joshbangle.com as the host, pointing to my netlify subdomain for my website, and another with www.joshbangle.com as the host doing the same. So far my site can’t be reached,…

Do I need to delete the domain and subdomain records I already have active for the website in my Netlify account from before?

Hi, @joshbangle , thanks for letting us know it is working now. One other think I wanted to mention is that the DNS zone at Netlify should be deleted here: https://app.netlify.com/account/dns/joshbangle.com There is more about why in this support guide: [image] [Support Gui…

Incredibly helpful! I had the exact same issue and this solution worked perfectly for me.

Is there any specific advantage in using Netlify DNS?

I switched my domain to Google Domains, but can't use their email service and still use Netlify DNS

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coelmay January 5, 2022, 8:52pm 11

Please don’t post the same question on multiple threads @vishisht. See response here.

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I switched my domain to Google Domains, but can't use their email service and still use Netlify DNS

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