The Domains guide

Set up Dbrij Domains step by step: what you need, what to press, and how you know each step worked.

Set up Domains, step by step

By the end your names live in one place, renew themselves, and carry email for your team.

Before you start, have these ready

  • Your registrant contact details.
  1. Add contact details

    Registries need them for every domain. On My domains, press Contact details and fill in the name, address, email and phone the registry keeps on file.
    Contact details
  2. Find or connect a domain

    Buy one, connect one, or transfer one in. Type a name under Find a domain and press Buy; for a name you already own elsewhere, press Connect a domain on My domains.
    Find a domain
    You will know it worked when the domain appears under My domains and shows Active, usually within a few minutes.
  3. Turn on email

    We write the records; you add mailboxes. On Email, press Enable email next to a domain bought on Dbrij. A domain from somewhere else joins through Add outside domain, and its page lists the records to add where it lives.
    Open Email
    You will know it worked when the domain shows Active on the Email page.
  4. Give people addresses

    Assign or make team inboxes. Pick a domain on Addresses to create one, then use the menu on a row to add readers or switch it off.
    Open addresses
  5. Keep auto renew on

    It renews itself 5 days before expiry, and we email you from 30 days out. Renewal by hand opens 60 days before the expiry date.
    You will know it worked when the domain page reads auto renew on under its name.

Point a domain at your website

Skip this if you only want email for now. The domain works for email without a website.

  1. Pick where your website runs

    A site on Dbrij Hosting is one press; a site with another company needs the record they give you.

    My website is on Dbrij Hosting: Your site already runs on Dbrij.

    1. Press Attach on the domain

      On My domains, press Attach on the domain and choose the service your website runs on. We write the records and set up HTTPS for you.
      Open My domains
      You will know it worked when the domain opens your website with a padlock in the address bar.

    My website is somewhere else: It runs with another company.

    1. Add their record under DNS records

      Open the domain, switch on Edit records, press Add record and enter the record your website company gives you, usually an A record or a CNAME. Their own help pages name it.
      Open My domains
      You will know it worked when the domain opens your website.

Connect a domain you bought somewhere else

Keep the domain where it is and point it at a site on Dbrij Hosting.

  1. Press Connect a domain

    On My domains, press Connect a domain and type the domain.
    Open My domains
  2. Add the one record it shows

    Sign in wherever the domain is managed, open its DNS settings and add the record Dbrij shows. Never used a DNS screen? The Mail guide walks through one step by step.
    The DNS step, slowly
  3. Let it check itself

    Dbrij checks the record on its own and issues HTTPS once it passes.
    You will know it worked when the domain shows Active under My domains.

Move a domain to another company

Leaving is free and instant.

  1. Press Transfer away

    Open the domain and its Settings, then press Transfer away to get its authorization code. Give the code to the company you are moving to.
    Open My domains

Questions people ask

What is a domain?

What is the difference between buying and connecting?

Why does my new domain say Pending?

Can one domain carry my website and my email?

What happens if I forget to renew?

How each part works

What Domains is

Domains registers names (including the .ng family), connects outside ones, transfers them in, and runs DNS. Email on your domains is set up in one click, and every address is managed in one list.

A domain bought elsewhere works too. Connect it, and you add a record or two where it lives; Dbrij checks them on its own.

Good to know

  • WHOIS privacy is free where the registry allows it.
  • A transfer adds a year to the expiry.
  • Connected domains stay at your registrar.
  • Each domain has its own page with DNS records, Subdomains, Email and Settings, so everything about one name is in one place.
  • Prices are shown per year in naira before you pay.
  • Transfer away hands you the authorization code straight away. Leaving costs nothing.

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