Pointing Your Domain to Your Store

If you already own a domain name—and therefore did not register one for the store during your
Merchant Solutions account setup—you need to point the domain to the store. In other words,
you have to change the domain’s settings so that when someone types the domain into a browser,
the main page from your store will be loaded.
In order to point a domain to a web site, you have to change the DNS settings for the domain.
DNS means Domain Name System; it’s the system used by the Internet to specify where a web
site can be found. When you change DNS settings, you are telling the Internet which web server
has your site so that a browser knows where to go to find it. In order to point your domain to
your Merchant Solutions store, you have to change the nameserver information associated with
your domain to use the Yahoo! nameserver information.
This sounds a little complicated, but don’t worry too much about the technical aspects.
Yahoo! should send you an e-mail providing the nameserver information if you told Yahoo! that
you intended to use an existing domain. (If you can’t find this information, call and talk to their
customer support people.)
Provide this information to whoever manages your domain name. If that’s you, go to the
registrar’s web site and look for a page where you’ll see “Set Nameservers” or something
similar, and follow instructions there.

You can only point a single domain to a Yahoo! Merchant Solutions store. However, you
can forward as many domains to the store as you wish. With forwarding, you don’t change
nameserver information; you simply tell the registrar to forward browsers to another
domain name.