Domain works without "www," but not with "www"

[ZerozxCJ]

Hi,

Today I attempted to set up an online store with Square (not Squarespace) and noticed they had the option of buying your own domain, so I went ahead and did that. I bought a domain through Google Domains and basically set it up as best as I knew how with the instructions Square provided.

Square gave instructions of which IP addresses to point to in order for the custom domain to work, and I did that, but I just realized that when I type in the "www." prefix, it doesn't work. I've tried searching for a workaround to get it to work with www and without www, but the answers aren't really clear to me. I know a lot of people today just type in addresses without www, but I'd rather be safe than sorry and have it work both ways.

I'm hoping someone here is able to help. I'm not familiar with domains or hosting at all, but I think I can figure it out with instruction. Hopefully I didn't mess up somewhere along the way and it's an easy fix.

 

[jsmithepa]

but I'd rather be safe than sorry and have it work both ways.

You are being paranoid. www is really an old construct and totally unecessary.

I host with DNSexit, and with this registrar, they give me a URL Forwarding tool, and am able to tell it, if anybody types www.mydomain.com, send them to mydomain.com.

I don't know whether your registrar has such tool, or maybe they call it something else entirely.