A Simple Guide · Domains & DNS

How to Point Your TransIP Domain to Your New Website

If we built your personal-brand site and your domain is registered at TransIP (the Dutch registrar — nameservers ending in transip.nl, transip.net, transip.eu), this is the two-minute change that makes your new site show up on your own domain. We’ll give you one IP address; you paste it into two boxes and click Save.

There are two ways to connect a domain to a site: change a DNS record, or change the nameservers. For a TransIP domain we recommend the first one — it’s simpler, it’s reversible, and it keeps your email working because you leave everything else untouched.

Method 1 — Edit the A record (recommended)
Keep TransIP’s nameservers. Change one line (the A record) to our server’s IP. Your mail, calendar and any other records stay exactly as they are.

Method 2 — Change nameservers
Hand your whole DNS zone to our host. Only use this if we told you to — it moves all records, so email must be re-created on the new side.

Method 1 — Change the A record at TransIP (2 minutes)

What you need from us: one IP address, e.g. 34.199.192.119. Use the exact IP in the email we sent you.

Sign in to the TransIP control panel at transip.nl/cp (or transip.eu). Click Domain & Hosting → Domain in the menu.
Open your domain. In the left-hand list, click the domain name itself (don’t tick the checkbox next to it). Scroll down to (Advanced) domain settings.
Turn off “TransIP settings.” This is the step everyone misses. If you see a toggle labelled TransIP settings switched on, click it off — only then can you edit the raw DNS records below.
Find the DNS section and locate the existing A record for @ (that’s your root domain). Change its value to the IP we gave you. In the Name field use @, Type A, Value = the IP.
Do the same for www. Make sure there’s an A record with Name www pointing to the same IP (or a CNAME www → your root domain). Delete any old parking record that points somewhere else.
Click Save at the bottom right of the DNS block. That’s it.

Your DNS should end up looking like this

    Name   Type   Value

    @      A      34.199.192.119

    www    A      34.199.192.119

Method 2 — Change the nameservers (only if we ask)

If we’re going to manage your whole DNS zone, we’ll email you four nameservers instead of an IP. In the same (Advanced) domain settings screen, find the Nameservers header, delete the existing TransIP nameservers first, then add ours with the blue + button and Save. Because this moves every record, only do it when we’ve confirmed your email is handled.

Then wait a little. DNS changes spread across the internet within a few hours — occasionally up to 24. Your site auto-secures with HTTPS once the domain resolves to our server, so there’s nothing else for you to install. If it still isn’t showing after a day, reply to our email and we’ll check it with you.

These steps are for TransIP but are roughly similar at other registrars — see our companion guide for GoDaddy. Changing DNS is simple once you’ve done it once; if anything looks different from the screenshots, stop and ask us rather than guessing — a wrong record can take a domain offline.

Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu is co-author of the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in social media, The Definitive Guide to TikTok Ads. He has spent a billion dollars on Facebook ads and is on a mission to create one million jobs through hands-on digital training. His team builds and maintains personal-brand websites for professionals, speakers, and local businesses — and writes these guides so the domain step is never the scary part.

How to Point Your TransIP Domain to Your New Website