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[JayUK]

Instead of using my resellers NS, how do I create my own? If I go to GoDaddy.com and type in NS1.PRIVATENS.COM / NS2.PRIVATENS.COM for a domain I want pointed to me, it just tells me that there is an "Unavailable error in field Host name1" "Unavailable error in field Host name2"

[Domainitor]

Before you can use a nameserver it has to be created in the registry.

The current registrar for a given domain is the only one that can create the nameserver object in the registry (if it's a native domain in the TLD; if you wanted to register, say, a .ORG nameserver in the .COM/.NET registry, any registrar can do it). Presuming the parent domain (of the nameservers) is registered through GoDaddy you'd have to create the nameservers via GoDaddy. I'm not sure if/how GoDaddy supports that, as all of my nameservers are registered via my registrar. (And as I acquire domains through GoDaddy I transfer them out as soon as the 60-day hostage period is over.)

For the nameservers to work with [most] other registries, you need A records for them (since many registries don't provide DNS glue records).

So, assign IPs to the nameservers and set 'em up in their parent domain's DNS for starters. Then get the appropriate registrar to create them in the registry.

If you've not yet settled on nameserver software, I'd recommend Dan Bernstein's tinydns. See http://cr.yp.to for details. It's small, fast, secure, and stable. It also doesn't have the defects that BIND has....

[cedced]

Use http://www.melbourneit.com.au
can make nameserver & safe

[Patrick]

First question... do you have two dedicated IP addresses to act as nameservers? If not, you will need those before anything can really happen, plus reverse DNS would also help.

[mrzippy]

Ask your web host for help to create private nameservers. You might have to pay an extra fee, but most resellers these days offer this as an included service for a reseller account.