{"id":1741,"date":"2009-08-18T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:21:08","slug":"dns-pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/domains\/dns-pointing\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS pointing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DNS records<\/b> for domains hosted with us may be pointed to other web<\/strong> and mail servers<\/strong> outside of our network. This is known as DNS pointing<\/b> or Domain forwarding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

DNS pointing is possible for all hosting packages and can be set up with the DNS tool<\/a> in the Control Panel.<\/span><\/p>\n

For\u00a0detailed instructions on connecting your domain to Wix<\/a>, Weebly<\/a>, WordPress<\/a>, Shopify<\/a> or CloudFlare<\/a>, see the linked articles.<\/p>\n

Should you wish to rather redirect your domain name<\/strong> to an alternative website address (URL), this can be done with the Redirects tool<\/a> e.g. example.co.za<\/em> will forward to both the web content and domain\/URL of example.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"The DNS records<\/b> for domains hosted with us may be pointed to other web<\/strong> and mail servers<\/strong> outside of our network. This is known as DNS pointing<\/b> or Domain forwarding<\/strong>.\r\n

DNS pointing is possible for all hosting packages and can be set up with the DNS tool<\/a> in the Control Panel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For\u00a0detailed instructions on connecting your domain to Wix<\/a>, Weebly<\/a>, WordPress<\/a>, Shopify<\/a> or CloudFlare<\/a>, see the linked articles.<\/p>\r\n

Should you wish to rather redirect your domain name<\/strong> to an alternative website address (URL), this can be done with the Redirects tool<\/a> e.g. example.co.za<\/em> will forward to both the web content and domain\/URL of example.com<\/em>.<\/p>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DNS records for domains hosted with us may be pointed to other web and mail servers outside of our network. This can be set up via the DNS tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[155,157],"tags":[24114,23018,487,5559],"topics":[10457],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","category-managing-domains","tag-domain-forwarding","tag-redirects","tag-update-dns","tag-dns-pointing","topics-dns"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":155,"name":"Domains","slug":"domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":155,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","parent":0,"count":73,"filter":"raw","term_order":"61","cat_ID":155,"category_count":73,"category_description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","cat_name":"Domains","category_nicename":"domains","category_parent":0},{"term_id":157,"name":"Managing your domains","slug":"managing-domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":157,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Managing your Domains","parent":155,"count":17,"filter":"raw","term_order":"91","cat_ID":157,"category_count":17,"category_description":"Managing your Domains","cat_name":"Managing your domains","category_nicename":"managing-domains","category_parent":155}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":24114,"name":"domain forwarding","slug":"domain-forwarding","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24114,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"111"},{"term_id":23018,"name":"redirects","slug":"redirects","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23018,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"475"},{"term_id":487,"name":"update dns","slug":"update-dns","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":487,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2750"},{"term_id":5559,"name":"dns pointing","slug":"dns-pointing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5559,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2902"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}