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 Running your own nameservers/DNS, simple question, I hope. |
 Apr 21 2009, 02:13 AM
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Techie  Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 28-August 01 Member No.: 212  |
If you are running your own DNS, you have registered a domain, eg.:
domain.com ...and then registered the name server addresses so your hosted customers can use for their domains. Let's say you have these name servers that are registered: ns1.domain.com ns2.domain.com But here's the question - Do you need to keep that domain (domain.com) registered? In other words, if the domain expires, will the name server addresses that are based on that domain, also go out of business? Thanks much! |
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Apr 21 2009, 08:11 AM
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 Enlightened Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 27-March 07 Member No.: 47,903 |
QUOTE (joLS @ Apr 21 2009, 03:13 AM)  If you are running your own DNS, you have registered a domain, eg.: domain.com ...and then registered the name server addresses so your hosted customers can use for their domains. Let's say you have these name servers that are registered: ns1.domain.com ns2.domain.com But here's the question - Do you need to keep that domain (domain.com) registered? In other words, if the domain expires, will the name server addresses that are based on that domain, also go out of business? Thanks much! YES! If the domain expires, ALL of your records based on that domain will disappear, as well. This means that not just ns1 and ns2, but all *.domain.com subdomains will go away. --Alden |
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Apr 21 2009, 08:15 AM
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 SuperGeek  Group: The Planet Staff Posts: 1,042 Joined: 18-May 07 From: Dallas, Tx Member No.: 48,459 |
Simple Answer: Yes, your domains will go down.
Complex Answer: Your name servers will still serve the records up if queried directly, but no one will know to do that unless you specifically gave them directions. For the average user looking for your site, this will not be feasible. Many people will do this for QA purposes when deploying new infrastructure. -------------------- Tomy Durden
Data Center Manager - Operations Projects Team |
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Apr 21 2009, 05:56 PM
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Computer Chip Group: Members Posts: 747 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 43,347 |
As everyone else said, yes you want to keep it registered.
You can register a .com or .net domain within Orbit for $6.99 a year so that cost should just be part of your DNS operations; and a low cost at that. |
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Apr 22 2009, 03:01 AM
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 SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 1,393 Joined: 18-November 05 From: Lake Michigan Member No.: 18,911 |
Or if you are registering a good number of domains, signup for one of the planet's http://www.resellone.net reseller accounts for reseller pricing (but you have to maintain a deposit in your account in exchange for the better pricing), domain registration API access, bulk change ability, and the ability to create client sub-accounts for domain management.
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