Open the domain under Domains > My Domains > Manage, choose Nameservers, and enter the ones you want or select the default set. Changes propagate over hours, occasionally longer.
Read this before you change them
Nameservers decide which provider answers all questions about your domain. Changing them replaces every answer at once — the website record, the mail records, and every verification record.
If the new nameservers hold a website record but no MX records, your website moves and your email stops. There is no warning, because nothing is broken from the DNS system's point of view; you simply have no mail servers listed any more. This is the single most common self-inflicted outage we see, and it is entirely avoidable.
Nameservers or individual records?
Change DNS records when you are moving one thing — pointing the site at a new server while mail stays put, adding a verification record, changing a subdomain.
Change nameservers only when you are moving everything to a new DNS provider, and only after that provider already holds a complete copy of your records.
The safe procedure
- List every existing record at the current provider — every A, CNAME, MX and TXT record with its values and priorities. Screenshot it.
- Recreate all of them at the new provider before touching the registrar.
- Compare the two lists line by line. Pay particular attention to TXT records: mail authentication and third-party verifications live there, and nothing visibly breaks without them until later.
- Only then change the nameservers here.
- Do not delete the old zone for at least a week.
Lower the TTL first if you are planning a move
TTL controls how long resolvers cache the old answer. Lower it several days before the change; lowering it at the moment of change achieves nothing, because the old long TTL is already cached everywhere.
If you are unsure
Send us the domain and describe what you want to happen, not which setting you think needs changing. Telling you takes a minute. Unpicking a nameserver change made in the wrong order takes considerably longer.
