# Updating DNS records for a domain managed by GoDaddy
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If GoDaddy is your DNS provider, use the following instructions to update your DNS records in the GoDaddy UI to finish connecting your Amplify app to your GoDaddy domain.

**To add a custom domain managed by GoDaddy**

1. Before you can update your DNS records with GoDaddy, complete steps one through nine of the procedure [Adding a custom domain managed by a third-party DNS provider](to-add-a-custom-domain-managed-by-a-third-party-dns-provider.md).

1. Log in to your GoDaddy account.

1. In your list of domains, find the domain to add and choose **Manage DNS**.

1. On the **DNS ** page, GoDaddy displays a list of records for your domain in the **DNS Records** section. You need to add two new CNAME records.

1. Create the first CNAME record to point your subdomains to the Amplify domain.

   1. In the **DNS Records** section, choose **Add New Record**.

   1. For **Type**, choose **CNAME**.

   1. For **Name**, enter only the subdomain. For example, if your subdomain is **www.example.com**, enter **www** for **Name**.

   1. For **Value**, look at your DNS records in the Amplify console and then enter the value. If the Amplify console displays the domain for your app as **d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net**, enter **d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net** for **Value**.

      The following screenshot shows the location of the domain name record to use.  
![The DNS records in the Amplify console, including the domain name record.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/images/amplify-customdomains-DNS-verification3.png)

   1. Choose **Save**.

1. Create the second CNAME record to point to the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) validation server. A single validated ACM generates an SSL/TLS certificate for your domain.

   1. For **Type**, choose **CNAME**.

   1. For **Name**, enter the subdomain.

      For example, if the DNS record in the Amplify console for verifying ownership of your subdomain is **\_c3e2d7eaf1e656b73f46cd6980fdc0e.example.com**, enter only **\_c3e2d7eaf1e656b73f46cd6980fdc0e** for **Name**.

      The following screenshot shows the location of the verification record to use.  
![The DNS records section in the Amplify console with the Hostname verification record circled](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/images/amplify-customdomains-DNS-verification-1.png)

   1. For **Value**, enter the ACM validation certificate.

      For example, if the validation server is **\_cjhwou20vhu2exampleuw20vuyb2ovb9.j9s73ucn9vy.acm-validations.aws**, enter **\_cjhwou20vhu2exampleuw20vuyb2ovb9.j9s73ucn9vy.acm-validations.aws** for **Value**.

      The following screenshot shows the location of the ACM verification record to use.  
![The DNS records in the Amplify console, including the ACM verification record.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/images/amplify-customdomains-DNS-verification2.png)

   1. Choose **Save**.
**Note**  
The default Amplify certificate generated by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is valid for 13 months and renews automatically as long as your app is hosted with Amplify. Amplify can't renew the certificate if the CNAME verification record has been modified or deleted. You must delete and add the domain again in the Amplify console.

1. This step is not required for subdomains. GoDaddy doesn’t support ANAME/ALIAS records. For DNS providers that do not have ANAME/ALIAS support, we strongly recommend migrating your DNS to Amazon Route 53. For more information, see [Configuring Amazon Route 53 as your DNS service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-configuring.html).

   If you want to keep GoDaddy as your provider and update the root domain, add **Forwarding** and set up a domain forward:

   1. On the **DNS** page, locate the menu at the top of the page and choose **Forwarding**.

   1. In the **Domain** section, choose **Add Forwarding**.

   1. Choose **http://**, and then enter the name of your subdomain to forward to (for example, **www.example.com**) for the **Destination URL**.

   1. For **Forward Type**, choose **Temporary (302)**. 

   1. Choose, **Save**.