How to connect a domain to Netlify

How connecting a domain to Netlify works

These are Netlify's officially published external-DNS values: www is a CNAME to your site's *.netlify.app name; the apex is preferably an ALIAS/ANAME/flattened CNAME to apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com, with an A record to 75.2.60.5 as the fallback when your provider can't do ALIAS-type records at the apex.

SSL is auto-provisioned via Let's Encrypt once DNS resolves to Netlify. Assigning an apex domain auto-adds a www subdomain in Netlify, but both still need DNS configured. High-Performance Edge / Enterprise sites may get different load-balancer values — check the 'Pending DNS verification' modal.

DNS records to set at your registrar

Values verified from Netlify's official docs, as of June 2026. Providers can change these — confirm against Netlify's current dashboard.

Step by step

1. Have or buy the domain (search and register on JustDomain.ai).
2. In Netlify, open your site → Domain management → Add a domain and enter your domain.
3. Choose to use external DNS (keep DNS at your current provider), if that's your setup.
4. At your DNS provider, add the www CNAME → your-site.netlify.app.
5. For the apex, add ALIAS/ANAME/flattened CNAME → apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com; if unsupported, add an A record → 75.2.60.5.
6. Wait for propagation (up to ~24h). Netlify verifies and issues a Let's Encrypt certificate automatically; confirm HTTPS in Domain management → HTTPS.

Common gotchas

• Apex domains don't support plain CNAME records — use ALIAS/ANAME/flattened CNAME or the A record 75.2.60.5.
• Prefer apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com over the raw IP; the IP is a less-resilient fallback.
• On High-Performance Edge (Enterprise), pull the exact target from the 'Pending DNS verification' modal.
• SSL won't provision until DNS actually points at Netlify — a wrong/stale record blocks the certificate.