Not sure how to set up a Netlify subdomain

[perry]

hey @martin.m.riley - lets untangle a little bit.

First, give this thread a read through:

Questions about moving pointing my GoDaddy Domain to my new Netlify hosting

For the last few years I’ve had my simple static website hosted at GoDaddy and also had an accompanying .com domain for it also at GoDaddy. After learning I could have not only more reliable, simple, faster, AND FREE hosting for my static site recently with Netlify, I am now planning NOT to renew my Godaddy hosting in august and just host my site with Netlify( I already have a test version running fine on Netlify without custom domain). Even though I’ve never done this before, pointed a domain…

It explains some of the underlying stuff: registrar vs DNS and so on. If you have specific to you questions you can ask them here.

I don’t think what you need is an MX record, also. Those are only for email?