How to set up DNS configuration for DigitalOcean

Your hosting provider manages all the DNS records, and you should add a record on the provider's side.

Go to Stape Admin → open container → click Settings → Domains (Tagging Server URLs). You will need data from columns Type, Host, and Value to create a DNS recording.

1. Log in to your DigitalOcean account.

2. At the top of the page, click Networking → Domains.

3. Enter your registered domain and IP address and click Create Record.

4. Then, you will see the A record, or address record, for the domain and the name servers (NS records), which you will need to give your domain's registrar.

5. Click Add record.

Find more information on adding DNS records in DigitalOcean’s documentation.

DNS record verification usually happens within a few hours after adding the record but may take up to 72 hours in some cases.

To check if your record is verified, use Dig (DNS lookup):

1. Enter the hostname (without https:// and other extra characters)

2. Choose the type of report (e.g., A, CNAME).

If the DNS record is verified, you will see TTL (Time to live) and Data on record, as shown in the screenshot below.

You will receive a Record not found message if the DNS record fails to verify (the screenshot below).

If you encountered problems with DNS record verification, please see the section Main reasons why a subdomain is not verified in our other post.