How to purchase a domain from godaddy.com

A domain name is an address of your website that people type on browser to visit your website. In layman terms, if you consider your house as an website, domain can be considered as address of your house.

godaddy.com is one of the popular domain registrar’s that provide domain names.

Purchase a Domain:
1. Create an account at godaddy.com.
2. Navigate to domains and search a domain name of your choice.

3. At this step, you will get list of domain names. Choose a domain of your choice and add to cart.

4. Add to cart and purchase the domain. In this case, it’s charging 0.99$/year approximately.

5. Once you purchase the domain, you can view the domains as below.

6. Select domain and hit on Manage DNS to view Name Servers provided by godaddy.com.

7. Name Servers provided for this domain.

Nameservers help navigate traffic around the internet by translating a domain name into an IP address. This may not be a necessary information for the enduser who uses the application URL. But as system admin, should know what a name server is and where they are located if you run a website.

If you bought a domain on any one registrar and use another for hosting, you need to make sure your nameservers are configured correctly.

By following the above steps, any one can purchase a domain from godaddy.com website and host it at different platforms like Amazon Route 53 or Azure DNS etc.