Registering Nameservers Mini-Tutorial

[axel]

Hello there,

I've just signed up and fought my way through setting up and registering my nameservers. Since this seems to be causing much grief to especially newbies, I thought I post up what I did for others to see:

Read and follow this tutorial first for steps 1 & 2:
http://www.matrixreseller.com/stepbystep/

1) Set up your admin account and service plan
2) Set up your DNS zone and nameservers (admin account -> e.manager -> server aliases)
3) Go to the registrar who you registered your domain with (i.e. 123-reg) and go to "Change Nameservers" (see their FAQ/Help or the flash tutorials on Vortech/Matrixreseller)
4) Enter all four nameservers you created in your H-Sphere control panel earlier
5) Then your registrar should prompt you for IP addresses in order to create the new nameservers, put in the IPs given in e.manager -> server aliases for your new nameservers
6) If you get errors, make sure your domain is un-locked! Most registrars lock domains automatically by default to prevent hijacking thesedays.
7) Sit back with a nice cup of tea (or other fav' beverage) and wait 24-72 hours for your nameservers to start working. You can check whether it's working by running a whois query on your domain (i.e. whois yourdomain.com) It will show you what nameservers it's running off.

Good luck and don't worry, it's not really as hard as it looks

Axel.

[Brangwyn]

I may be misreading your post there but it's a little confusing

With your registrar you want to "register" each of the nameserver aliases you have created, but you do not want to change your service domain to use all 4 of the nameservers, only the 2 that are assigned by the control panel should be loaded as your service domains nameservers.

All 4 must be "registered" though so that your customers have the ability to use them, registering nameservers is basically nothing more than creating a series of NS and A records at the TLD Zone that points to your aliases. Many registrars call these Child Nameservers or sometimes also called vanity nameservers.