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Sometimes when I look up the WHOIS information for some domains, I see that their nameservers are forwarded to a service like ZoneEdit or Domain Control. I've never understood what the purpose is for doing this but I have a feeling it has to do with hiding the nameserver so someone who does a WHOIS on the domain can't figure out which service the site is hosted under.
Can someone please explain this to me?
There is all sorts of reasons someone may use a service like this:
Their webhost doesn't provide DNS. Especially true for people running their own VPS (you'd need 2, for backup DNS).
Their webhost provides DNS, but it is bad; it is slow, it drops out, whatever it may be.
They use multiple webhosts and want to keep all the DNS in one place.
I'm sure there's many more, but these are the obvious ones.
On a related note, for many web hosts you can look up the owner of the IP range that the web server is in if you want to know what company is ultimately hosting a website. This will turn up some info, though the company that owns the IP may not be the person that is being paid directly by a site owner for hosting on that IP.
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Not sure how to word the title.
I am in this situation...
I have had a website for a long time now where the domain name and hosting are managed by OVH. A few years ago, I setup the email service through Protonmail with a custom domain. To do this, I changed some things in the DNS Zone so that emails will be routed through Protonmail. I would have to go back and look at exactly what needed changed...
Now however, I am becoming unhappy with the hosting provided by OVH, so I would like to try out another host. The issue is that to switch hosts, I could either
Transfer the domain to another provider, and then setup the email from scratch.
Switch the nameservers at OVH to point to hosting somewhere else (e.g. A2Hosting).
I would prefer to take the second option, since this would allow me to try out a different host without having to reconfigure my email. If I like the host, then I would probably move everything over to them. But I simply don't know if it is feasible. So is this possible? And if so, how would I do it?
I am worried that if I just switch the nameservers at the host, then my email would be offline.
You are right, if you change the name servers you will not be able to receive mails (unless you configure the MX records at the new provider). In you case you can simply create 2 A records pointing the root domain (example.com) and * (which is for all subdomains, that don't have their own records, so www.example.com and something.example.com will work, as long as there are no other records for them).
For more information about the records configuration you better ask your new host.
And when you are happy with the new hosting you can change the name servers or transfer the domain or do whatever you want. Note that the web host, the domain registrar and the DNS host may be from different providers, it's not a must to have all the services at one place.
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I have a problem.
I own a small hosting company. I am trying to add Cloudflare to my site as a free CDN. The only problem is when I sign up I have to change the nameservers to their nameservers. I already have nameserver DNS set up through GoDaddy, so how do I add them to CloudFlare? My main site uses my company's nameservers already but whenever I add them the site goes offline.
When I go into Cloudflare's DNS records I click on the dropdown, click NS, and there's two boxes that say 'Name' and 'Nameserver'. Does this mean I input 'NS1' into 'Name' and 'NS1.DOMAIN.COM' into 'Nameserver'? Where do I input my server's IP addresses?
Is there another way of accomplishing this with the free version of Cloudflare?
That is just impossible. Option to have custom name servers available only on Business and Enterprise. See https://www.cloudflare.com/plans.
Also, you might mistaken. You must change name servers in your domain register settings, not on CloudFlare.
An old question (no doubt you found the answer long ago), but nevertheless still an interesting one! I recently faced this issue and would like to share what I did.
If I understand the question correctly, you are using child nameservers at your registrar to point your customers' domains to your server?
In cloudflare, after you have added your primary domain, you can also specify the NS record to allow customer domains to continue to use your custom / child nameservers at your registrar.
In the DNS records control panel, simply choose NS from the dropdown field, then in the Name field, add your child nameserver, then in Ip4address field, add the nameserver so it looks like e.g.
NS yourdomain.com managed by ns1.yourchildnameserver.com
Do the same for NS2 and your customer domains should continue to resolve without any issues.
In the end of course, it would be better to add each customer domain into CF ad point their DNS directly to your server, but the above steps should work as an interim measure.
Hope this helps someone else.
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I have a host and my own domain, lets say: www.mysite.com, on this host I have created a site: sub.mysite.com
Another person owns www.domain.com and I need him to point the domain to sub.mysite.com, however I am going away tomorrow and would like to just leave him the details he needs in order to point www.domain.com to sub.mysite.com, what would those details be?
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-Anton
The Name Server addresses, which can be found searching here:
http://who.is
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Bear in mind that in addition to changing the name servers for the domain, you will also need change your [host's] server configuration to manage the traffic redirection.
Name Server addresses point to a server, not a domain. You want the name servers to match for your current domain and the domain you want moving. This means they will both find the same 'computer'. It is down to the 'computer' (server) to then provide the right files; in this situation, it is achieved by configuring the server to forward traffic arriving from 'newdomain.com' to 'sub.olddomain.com'.
If using the CPanel web management control panel, this is done in the 'Addon Domains' section:
Enter the domain to be pointed in the 'new domain name' field, then set the 'Document Root' field to point to the folder hosting the contents of your subdomain. (e.g. /public_html/sub)
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I am hosting and application in IIS. the application is a INTRANET APPLICATION.
Already the server has 2 application hosted in it with host names
site1.k.com and site2.k.com
k.com is my domain name.
I have give host name for my site as
site3.k.com
Do i have to make DNS entry for this.
If you have a wildcard dns entry such that <anything>.k.com goes to your server, then you don't need a specific DNS entry for site3.k.com, but it might make things easier down the road if you have it.
Of course, if you don't have the wildcard set up, and you need to have the url for site3.k.com work, then yeah, it'd be required.
Now, you mention that this is intranet ... if you have a windows server configured to broadcast that it's name is site3 via WINS service, then you might get away with not having the DNS entry, but this behavior is not reliable, because WINS may or may not route to remote sites, depending on WAN and/or VPN configurations, and will generally be a pain in the ass for support.
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Pretty much what the title says. I purchased a .com domain for my first personal site ever from gandi.net and I purchased shared hosting space from lithium hosting.
I haven't found any specific instructions for how to make the domain name use the hosting space I purchased, so if you guys could advise me on that, it'd be fantastic!
Thanks!
Typically you log in to the place you registered the Domain (gandi.net) and there should be a place to configure the Name servers for that domain. Lithium hosting should have info somewhere on what their nameservers are, so find that and put them on gandi.net. There maybe some additional setup you have to do on the Lithium side as well (like telling them what domain name you are hosting on their services).
You will have to point domain NameServers to your hosting eg NS1.YOURHOSTING.COM NS2.YOURHOSTING.COM, that is in your case pretty much it.
NS1.LITHIUMHOSTING.COM -> 184.82.230.74
NS2.LITHIUMHOSTING.COM -> 184.82.44.168
You have to tell the people from whom you purchased the domain that they should point it to your webspace which is identified by an other name or an ip address. Look for something like "CNAME Resource Record" or "A Resource Record".
If you cannot find a menu on the site to do this just contact the support.