By default, When you sign up for any of our reseller hosting plans you receive default nameservers in welcome email.
Follow the following steps for creating custom nameservers (like ns1.yourdomain.com & ns2.yourdomain.com) for your reseller account.
- Login to your cPanel account.
- Navigate to Zone Editor -> Add a new record.
- Add a new "A" Record with the following values -
- Name - ns1.yourdomain.com
- Record - IP 1 provided in the welcome email.
- Repeat the above step for creating a record for ns2.yourdomain.com - IP 2.
- Login to the WHM now.
- Navigate to Basic WebHost Manager Setup.
- Under nameservers select "Explicitly Set the Nameservers" and enter the ns1.yourdomain.com & ns2.yourdomain.com which you created in the above steps.
- Save.
To complete the process, you need to log in to your domain panel (Eg. Godaddy, domain.com, Bigrock.in) from where you have purchased the domain (yourdomain.com) and point the domain to our servers for the nameservers to work. To do so, you need to create Child Nameservers for the domain name. All companies have different approaches to creating these child nameservers.
Here are some details of how to do it for different domain name Registrars.
123Reg
1. Login to your account
2. Select the reseller domain name in question
3. Unlock the domain if needed (normally not a co.uk domain)
4. Select change nameservers
5. Enter nameserver 1 for example- ns1.xxxx.co.uk
6. Repeat for nameserver 2
7. Click on "Change Nameserver"
8. In new screen enter the nameserver IP addresses and finalize
9. Lock the domain name again if needed
10. You have now created the private nameservers and also pointed your own domain to them!
11. Change any client nameserver entries to your own as required.
1&1
1. Login to your account
2. Click Manage Your Domains
3. Check the domain you want to edit
4. At the top of the list, hit arrow next to DNS, then Edit DNS Settings
5. In the drop down box, hit My Name Server
6. Fill in your custom nameservers
DirectNIC
1. Login to your account
2. Click Domain Manager
3. To the right of the domain name, there are three icons: a telephone, and computer and a house (I think). Click the computer (middle icon)
4. Before you enter the Nameservers, you need to click on the link above for “Create Nameserver”
5. create the ns1 and ns2 with your IP addresses
6. When you’re done, go back to Domain Manager and select the computer icon next the your domain again.
7. Enter the nameservers you just created and click Modify
Domain Monster
1. Login to your account
2. In the members area search for your domain to add the nameservers to
3. Click on the domain name
4. Click on name servers and glue records
5. Select the bottom box name servers based upon this domain
6. Click on Manage Glue Records
7. In add glue records enter NS1 in the first box and the first IP address we gave you in the next box over to the right
8. Repeat in the next line down using NS2 and the second IP address we gave you
9. Click add glue records
DomainSite
1. Login to your account
2. Select Manage Registered Domain Names
3. Click on the domain name you wish to add nameservers for
4. Select Register a Name Server
5. Type ns1 in the Host Name box
6. Enter the ns1 IP
7. Click continue
8. Click Register
9. Click Continue managing
10. Select Register a Name Server
11. Enter ns2 in the hostname box
12. Enter the ns2 ip in the IP Address box
13. Click continue
14. Click Register
15. Change your nameservers to the ones you’ve just created
Enom
1. Log into your Enom account
2. Open the tab Domains/Advanced Tools/Register a NameServer
3. Enter the NameServer in the top options box eg: ns1.myname.com
4. Enter the server IP address in the second line eg: 216.xxx.xxx.xxx
5. Click submit
6. Repeat for next NameServer, there may be 2 or more to enter
4. Click submit
The remaining boxes below are self explanatary, update what you have done above, delete or check the status of a NameServer
GoDaddy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TJcW5_wA8E
Mydomain (Also applies to Dotster)
1. Log into your account, and navigate to the “My Domains” page
2. Under the “STEP 1. CHOOSE …” header, click on the domain you want nameservers under
3. Under “Name Servers”, click “Register Name Server”
4. Enter “ns1″ (no quotes) in the “Host Name” box, and your first nameserver IP
5. On the success page, click “Back to Domain Information”
6. Repeat steps 3. to 5., using your second nameserver IP
7. Under “Name Servers”, click “Update Name Servers”
8. Change the nameserver to the ones you’ve just created
Namecheap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWcDmdUnAw
Stargate / Bigrock / Resellerclub - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK27x9ZJ-8o
Network Solutions
1. Login to Account Manager
2. Click the check box next to the domain you want to manage, then click “Edit DNS”
3. Ignore the warnings and click the “continue button under “Move DNS to A New Name Server” (do not select DNS Manager Continue)
4. Ignore the warning on the next page, and click Continue
5. Enter your custom nameservers, ns1.example.com ns2.example.com and click Continue
6. On the next screen, enter the IP addresses for those nameservers and click Continue
7. Ignore the warnings and click Save DNS
Register.com
1. Login to your domain control panel
2. Click on the domain you wish to change
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and under “Avanced Technical Setting”, click on “Managed Registered Name Servers”
4. On the next screen, look for Register DNS Server
5. Enter “ns1″ for DNS Server, and the IP address (notice the domain name is pre-defined). Click the Continue button
6. On the next screen (a confirmation screen), click Continue
7. Repeat steps 3 - 6
8. Now that the NameServer IPs are registered, you can look for the section “Domain Name System Servers”
9. Enter ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com
