Re-direct domain name?

[Clara]

Hi, I'm having trouble getting the domain name I just set up to point to the place where my site is actually being hosted.
The place where I registered the domain is GoDaddy.com, but the site is being hosted elsewhere. And it's not clear what new information I should be entering, in order to connect the domain name with my actual website.
I mean, is it CNAME? NS? The IP address? A combination of the above? I know that they have a section on Domain Forwarding, but from what I've heard that slows down your site and can be damaging to page rank.
If anyone can help me with this I'd be very grateful. It's really annoying to be this close to getting it up and running, only to be stumped by this.
Thanks.

[DefiantRican]

It is really quite simple. Let just say you site is being hosted at abc.com. and ur domain is at goddaddy.com. You host would have provided u with what are called nameservers. So for this demo we will say that abc.com gave u your name servers. your nameservers will more then likley look like this

ns1.abc.com and ns2.abc.com
now these are the steps to set your domain to to go the site on abc.com hosting:

1. login to godaddy
2. click on my domains
3. click on your domain name that is in there.
4.in the middle of the screen you will see nameservers.
5. click on it
6. you will then see a place where u can enter in new name servers.
7. enter in your ns1.yourhostname.com and your ns2.yourhostname.com in the spaces there overwriting the ones that are there already.then click ok. It will take about 24-48 hours to completely be updated all over the internet.

Congrats. You have just set up your first nameservers.