Make both domains live

You bought nxtgen.photos and nxtgen.photography at 123-reg. They are still on GoDaddy parking. The other two sites already share DigitalOcean London at 134.209.30.129, nginx, and Let's Encrypt. We do that again — we do not move DNS to Vercel.

1. STEP 01

   Leave nameservers alone

   faqatrader.com and leafys.life already use 123-reg / GoDaddy nameservers (nsXX.domaincontrol.com). Both new domains already do the same. Do not switch to DigitalOcean nameservers. Stay in the 123-reg DNS screen and only change records.

2. STEP 02

   Open nxtgen.photos in 123-reg

   Sign in at 123-reg.co.uk → My Products → Domains → Manage next to nxtgen.photos → DNS / Manage DNS. You will see two parking A records (76.223.67.189 and 13.248.213.45). Those are the holding page, not the studio.

3. STEP 03

   Point the apex at the London droplet

   Delete both parking A records. Add one A record: host @ (or blank), value 134.209.30.129. That is the same IPv4 faqatrader.com and leafys.life already use.

4. STEP 04

   Point www as well

   Remove any parking CNAME on www. Add either CNAME www → nxtgen.photos, or A www → the same droplet IP. Do both the root and www or one of them will keep showing the park page.

5. STEP 05

   Repeat for nxtgen.photography

   Same four records on the second domain: A @ → the droplet, and www as CNAME to nxtgen.photography (or another A to the droplet). Two domains, one machine, same as covering a misspelling.

6. STEP 06

   Wait until dig agrees

   From a terminal: dig +short nxtgen.photos A should print 134.209.30.129. Until it does, the droplet cannot get a Let's Encrypt certificate. Propagation is usually minutes; 123-reg say it can take up to 48 hours.

7. STEP 07

   Nginx + certbot on the droplet

   SSH to the London box. Drop in deploy/nginx-nxtgen.conf, enable the site, reload nginx. Then certbot --nginx for both names and both www hosts. photography 301s to photos so there is one canonical studio.

8. STEP 08

   Run this Next.js app

   Clone this repo on the droplet, npm ci && npm run build, then systemd or pm2 on port 3010 (see deploy/nxtgen.service). nginx already proxies that port. After that, https://nxtgen.photos is the studio.