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Setting hostname of a Surge CNAME record to @ on GoDaddy

I'm trying to deploy my portfolio to my domain www.dillonbartkus.com with Surge.

The instructions are as follows:

instructions

I'm using a GoDaddy domain that I bought through Google Suite.

In the picture it shows a CNAME record with a hostname of www and @ and a value of na-west1.surge.sh. When I try to do this in my DNS records, I can do the CNAME with www for the name, but when I try to do the @ I get an error that says 'Enter your host name as "@", "sub-domain" '.

I have tried all different syntax for this, but it won't go through.

error

How do I add / edit the other to include @ ?

Solution

  • You must delete all A & CNAME records on GoDaddy first, then follow the Surge documentation. GoDaddy only allows a CNAME www record to be added, not @.

    The documentation states you should replace the CNAME @ (apex domain) record with an A @ record using Surge's IP.

    Thus, on GoDaddy you must delete all existing A & CNAME records and add the following two records following a Type : Name : Value format:

    CNAME: www : na-west1.surge.sh

    A : @ : 45.55.110.124

    This had my domain resolving within 5 minutes.

    https://www.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Domains/domain-DNS-with-surge-sh/td-p/24075