Visit http://www.squarespace.com/ and click on Member Login.

Login with your Squarespace login name and password.

Click on Website Management at the top-left corner and then click on Custom Domain.

Type your domain name in the text box and then click on Add Mapping.

You'll receive a suggestion to also add www.yourdomainname.com. Click on the button to add the "www." record to your mapping.

Both your root domain name and your www record should now be listed. In the example above, you can see I have townbakeryshop.com and www.townbakeryshop.com listed.

Unless you already have your DNS records configured properly, you will get an error message if you try to check your set up. Our next step is to log into Hover to configure the DNS records on our side for your domain mapping.

We'll come back to Squarespace after configuring the DNS records in Hover.

Visit http://www.hover.com and click on the Sign In link near the top right.

Sign in with your Hover username and password.

Under the List of Domains tab, click on the domain name that you are using with Squarespace hosting.

Select the Manage Domain tab.

Before checking your DNS records, you should double check that your domain name is pointed at Hover's name servers. If you are not using our name servers, the changes you make to your Hover DNS records will not have any effect. Click on Name Servers. Your name servers need to be set to ns1.hover.com and ns2.hover.com. If your name servers need to be changed, this lesson provides a step-by-step tutorial: http://about.hover.com/ChangeNS

Click on Manage DNS.

Click on the Click here link to continue.

Create the following record:

Hostname: www
Type: select CNAME from the list
Target Host: www.squarespace.com

Click Save.

Change the blank record '@' A record IP address to 65.39.205.54 and then click on Update.

You should now have these two records listed for Squarespace:

@ A 65.39.205.54
www CNAME www.squarespace.com

The rest of your DNS records can be left unchanged (if you use Hover email services, changing other records may cause problems with sending and receiving your email messages).

Next, go back to your Squarespace account.

To test your configuration, click on the check setup link.

If you receive the error message above, try again in 15 minutes.

Please note: If you had to change your name servers to ns1.hover.com and ns2.hover.com, it could take up to 24 hours for your changes to take effect.

You will receive a message that "This domain is properly pointed to Squarespace" if it passes the Squarespace DNS check. Click on Go Back.

Click on the check setup link for your www record.

You will receive a message that "This domain is properly pointed to Squarespace" if it passes the Squarespace DNS check. If you receive an error, wait another 15 minutes and then try again.

Your domain name is now mapped to your Squarespace hosting account!
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