New domain & Netlify DNS with Punktum.dk

I do not know if anyone reads my page regularly. If anyone does, they would have noticed that this blog now exists on www.joulsen.dk and not on www.itmunk.dk as it did before. That is because itmunk is my father’s domain I have squatted on for a while (+8 years). Still, that domain has more sentimental value for him than me and as such I have moved on.

Netlify DNS

I host my site using Netlify and built using Hugo from a private Github repository. My blog is very small taking up less than 10 MB in total with approximately 95% of that consisting of images. Any purchasable website hosting (or VPS) is completely overkill for this small blog why this solution fits perfectly. Netlify offers a completentary domain for any new site. Mine is currently www.joulsen.netlify.com. Still I wanted my own domain, so I purchased one from a vendor (www.one.com in this case).

To setup a DK domain with Netlify, you must do the following:

1. Purchase a domain without hosting from a vendor. I let the registrar (www.punktum.dk) handle my domain but you can also let the vendor handle it.
2. Go into domain settings of Netlify and add the domain.
3. You can keep the DNS of your vendor but I decided to use Netlify DNS. To do this, press options and add Netlify DNS.
4. Netlify will instruct you to change DNS name servers, which you do in the domain name panel on www.punktum.dk
5. Press “Skift navneservere” and change the name servers to those specified by Netlify.
6. Wait about 24 for the DNS records to be stored and an additional couple of days for them to be cleared from caches.