I have used code backticks around some of the content of this post to try to avoid the restriction to include ‘only include 6 links’. I don’t want them to be links.
My Netlify site is
I own the domain robwakeman.com
The registrar is TSOHOST
The DNS is managed at TSOHOST
TSOHOST has made a CNAME for www and pointed it to confident-tesla-41316e.netlify.com
TSOHOST has also made a redirect from robwakeman.com
to www.robwakeman.com
from the cPanel
In Netlify, in Domain Management, my custom domains are:
confident-tesla-41316e.netlify.com
Default subdomain
www.robwakeman.com
Primary domain
robwakeman.com
Redirects automatically to primary domain
Initially, I added the custom domain robwakeman.com
But then I realised that I should have instead added www.robwakeman.com
which is recommended by Netlify
I subsequently added the custom domain www.robwakeman.com
because this subdomain points via a CNAME record at TSOHOST to confident-tesla-41316e.netlify.com
QUESTION 1
Do I need to remove robwakeman.com
(the apex domain)? Or is ok to just leave it there? It seems effectively redundant.
If so, I can see there is an option to ‘Remove domain’ for www.robwakeman.com
but there is no equivalent option to ‘Remove domain’ for robwakeman.com
Or would it somehow ‘break’ the system if I removed robwakeman.com
?
QUESTION 2
Also, why does it show ‘Check DNS configuration’ with a warning icon next to robwakeman.com
?
When I click this, I am prompted to set my nameservers to
dns1.p05.nsone.net
dns2.p05.nsone.net
dns3.p05.nsone.net
dns4.p05.nsone.net
I don’t want to do that - I want to continue managing the domain with TSOHOST. So, should I just ignore this ‘Check DNS configuration’ warning?
QUESTION 3
www.robwakeman.com
has a green Netlify DNS button next to it which goes to the DNS Settings page
https://app.netlify.com/teams/robwakeman/dns/robwakeman.com
I’m not sure why as I haven’t knowingly chosen to use Netlify DNS. Or does that just mean it’s giving me the option to use Netlify DNS?