Ok,

So I rented a new server from ThePlanet and purchased a domain name through GoDaddy ... I set the GoDaddy nameservers for the domain to point to

NS1.THEPLANET.COM
NS2.THEPLANET.COM

Do I still need to submit a DNS Change Request form? Because the domain name is not showing up in my DNS Administration panel in my Orbit Support Portal.

Thanks,
Danny

As far as I know, yes with orbit you have to submit a dns request to have a dns entry added to the planet's nameservers via orbit (I believe in server command you can add entires yourself.)

(As far as I can tell the DNS Administration panel only auto-adds domains that are registered through the Domain Administration portion of orbit)