Quick update: if you need a primer on domains in general, check a magnificent resource that Alejandra has sent me. Many thanks!

Most of the developers sooner or later will have to buy a domain for one of their projects, let it be hobby or commercial. I had this problem recently and most solutions that I’ve found were lacking, so I thought of this tutorial.

I assume that you have already bought a domain at Domain.com and have created a droplet on DigitalOcean. Let’s start, shall we?

DigitalOcean’s end

On your project’s page, select Add a domain frtom a dropdown menu:

Enter your domain name (I’ve used domain-tutorial.com for an example) and hit Add domain:

Everything should be mostly fine at this moment. Add a new A record with www. prefix, then hit Create record:

Your DNS records should look like this:

Domain.com’s end

For this part of the tutorial I’ll use my pre-existing gogpicker.com domain. In case you’re interested, it’s for my hobby project for Reddit. It aids users of r/GiftofGames subreddit in picking winners of Steam giveaways.

In your user panel, click on Manage next to your domain: