Tutorial: How to connect your NameBright domain to your SquareSpace page

This is one of the more common questions our customers ask us, so we've cobbled-together these short instructions here:

The whole process has to bigger parts:

Part One: On NameBright end: Set the necessary DNS records to point to SquareSpace
Part Two: Add the domain to your SquareSpace account, i.e. let SquareSpace know you'll want to use your NameBright domain.

Part One: Set SquareSpace's DNS records:

In order to enter DNS records, you will first have to set do two things

Set domain's nameservers to use NameBright's in order for NameBright's DNS Editor to work
Set in NameBright's DNS Editor to point to DNS records necessary for SquareSpace

For start, please log into your NameBright account, and go to My Account -> Domains -> (select your domain) -> Find Namservers tab, and click onto "enter nameservers" link as shown on the image below:

Then enter NameBright's nameservers

ns1.namebrightdns.com
ns2.namebrightdns.com

and click Save as shown on the image below:

Now you need to go to NameBright's DNS Editor and enter SquareSpace's DNS records

To do that:

Select "DNS Editor tab"
Delete all of the NameBright's default DNS records by clicking onto Delete link nexto to each record, as shown on the screenshot below. You won't need any of them:

After you have deleted NameBright's default DNS records, now you need to enter SquareSpace's DNS records:

First click on the Add a New DNS record button, like on screenshot below:
Then in Add a new DNS Record field, select "A Address Record" as type
For Subdomain field, choose "@" (no subdomain)
For IP Address field, enter 198.185.159.144
Then click Add button.

It should look something like the screenshot below:

Now you need to repeat the same procedure for 3 more IP addresses. In all, you need to enter these 4

Subdomain	Recordy Type	IP address
@ (no subdomain)	A	198.185.159.144 (You have already entered this one if you have followed the step above)
@ (no subdomain)	A	198.49.23.145
@ (no subdomain)	A	198.49.23.144
@ (no subdomain)	A	198.185.159.145

Now click onto Add a New DNS record button again and this time enter the following DNS record:

For Add a new DNS Record field, select "CNAME Canonical Name" as type
For Subdomain field, choose "www"
For Redirect domain field, enter ext-cust.squarespace.com
Then click Add button.

It should look something like the screenshot below:

At this point you're done with everything on NameBright's end! Whew! that was a bit work

Now it's time to go to SquareSpace and add the domain on their end

One very important note: Any DNS changes often take a few hours for all of providers around the world to pick them up. So if you're sure you've followed the instructions above and SquareSpace still complains DNS records haven't been properly set, please give SquareSpace a few hours to catch up