When you say "register your nameserver"..

What do you mean? I have the domain registered.. is that the same thing? How do I register the nameservers?

:cool:

That's not the same. You probably signed up as a reseller and got the advice "register your nameserver", have you?
Your host has provided you the name of your nameservers, e.g. ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com with two IPs. Go to the registrar of your domain into the control panel, somewhere will be a button "register nameserver" or such.

I dont see any option like that...
im using namecheap.com

There's a place for me to add my NS, but that doesnt work.

i emailed them, but no response...

Register nameservers mean that your Registrar who's resposible to your domain, allow you to create a sub name like ns*.yourdomain.com then help propagate your nameservers information to internic . Check out if your nameserver/IP is registered here http://www.internic.net/cgi/whois and select nameserver.


Most registrars today did not offer Nameserver Registration. So when you email them, they might tell to you to to create it at NSl, which sucks. In this situation, I'll move my domain to other Registrar that provide nameserver registration like Opensrs.

Hmm weird

I pop in our nameservers and it says not found.

Terry, where did you register your nameservers?

NSI (the company that we all love so much) decided they wanted their own database of nameservers, so you have to register them there as well, if you have people with NSI based domains who want to change their nameservers to yours...

Matt

We register all our domains with 123-reg.co.uk

Originally posted by The Laughing Cow
Hmm weird

I pop in our nameservers and it says not found.

Is you nameserver .com .net .org ? Internic are responsible for these tlds. If so, did you just register it in no longer than a few days since new nameservers take time to propagate.

Originally posted by voxtreme-matt
Terry, where did you register your nameservers?

NSI (the company that we all love so much) decided they wanted their own database of nameservers, so you have to register them there as well, if you have people with NSI based domains who want to change their nameservers to yours...

Matt
I continue to read this, but so far this has not been my experience.

Is there any documentation at NSI that you can point us to in reference to this?

I created nameservers at OpenSRS on Monday and used them with NSI registered domains on Friday with no extra effort required.

It's not that I'm doubting you - I'm just trying to understand the source of the information.

-t

There are 13 .com root servers out there that keep your nameserver information for resolving to internet users around the globe as sample below.


# nslookup

> set q=ns
> com.

Non-authoritative answer:
com nameserver = a.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = g.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = h.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = c.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = i.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = b.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = d.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = l.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = f.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = j.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = k.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = e.gtld-servers.net
com nameserver = m.gtld-servers.net

>set q=a
> server a.gtld-servers.net
Default Server: a.gtld-servers.net
Address: 192.5.6.30

> ns.yourdomain.com
Server: a.gtld-servers.net
Address: 192.5.6.30

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ns.yourdomain.com
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

i.gtld-servers.net = internic , f.gtld-servers.net=isc (http://isc.org) (people who create bind)

Netsol maintain 2 databases , a.gtld-servers.net and their Whois database , When you create/change Nameserver's IP , all root servers will reflect the change while Netsol's (and some other registrars like corenic) Whois Database didn't update Nameserver information with root servers . Furtunately whois database has no effect to outside world. Since when a guy call a domain , he was brought to root servers, not whois database.

read more: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/orientation.html

Originally posted by thewitt

I continue to read this, but so far this has not been my experience.

Is there any documentation at NSI that you can point us to in reference to this?

I created nameservers at OpenSRS on Monday and used them with NSI registered domains on Friday with no extra effort required.

It's not that I'm doubting you - I'm just trying to understand the source of the information.

-t

I was informed this in one (of my many) conversations with Netsol's useless techs.

Originally posted by voxtreme-matt


I was informed this in one (of my many) conversations with Netsol's useless techs.

They have nothing to do but blocking other registrars from gaining their last Pocket. :D

They block whois query from my servers many months ago and open it again since the last few months and turned to block query from their major archiver, Opensrs (http://www.opensrs.org/whois/index.shtml) .

Originally posted by thewitt

I continue to read this, but so far this has not been my experience.

Is there any documentation at NSI that you can point us to in reference to this?

I created nameservers at OpenSRS on Monday and used them with NSI registered domains on Friday with no extra effort required.

It's not that I'm doubting you - I'm just trying to understand the source of the information.

-t

To be honest, NSI has been hassling us about this is the recent past. It was my original understanding that you registered your nameservers with your domain registrar (and this has worked in practice for as long as I can remember), but NSI has suddenly been hassling us about this (for new customers that want to switch their nameservers over to ours).

For the longest time, if you were with a different registrar you
couldn't register your nameservers with NSI -- now they require exactly this (apparently).

Dan