{"id":206,"date":"2015-10-20T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:21:58","slug":"whonami-how-to-change-nameservers-for-your-domain-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/10\/20\/whonami-how-to-change-nameservers-for-your-domain-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Whonami-How to change nameservers for your domain names?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nameservers control where your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonami.com\">domain name<\/a> reaches out when visitors access it. When you register a domain name, we set it to our &#8220;parked&#8221; nameservers, which just display a temporary page. However, you got a domain name to make a website and might need to change your nameservers to connect it to your domain name.<\/p>\n<p>Which nameservers you need to use depends on where it&#8217;s registered and where your website is hosted. For example, if your domain name is registered or hosted with us, use the <strong>Here<\/strong> information; if it&#8217;s registered with or hosted by another company, use the<strong>Elsewhere<\/strong> information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">Setting your nameservers can be a complicated task. These guidelines will ideally help you through the process, but we want to encourage you to reach out to our 24\/7 technical support team at (480) 505-8877 should you experience any confusion or difficulties.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Domain?<\/th>\n<th>Website?<\/th>\n<th>Use these instructions&#8230;<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Here<\/td>\n<td>Here<\/td>\n<td>You can use our standard DNS configuration outlined in<a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/12316?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Set nameservers for domains hosted &amp; registered with us<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Here<\/td>\n<td>Elsewhere<\/td>\n<td>First, get your nameservers from your other hosting and then set them using <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/12317?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Set custom nameservers for domains registered with us<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elsewhere<\/td>\n<td>Here<\/td>\n<td>Find your site&#8217;s nameservers using <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/12318?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Nameservers for domains registered elsewhere\/hosted with WHONAMI-Cheap Domain Registration Service<\/a> and then provide them to your domain name&#8217;s registrar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elsewhere<\/td>\n<td>Off-Site DNS<\/td>\n<td>Off-Site DNS lets you use our DNS manager if your domain name is neither registered nor hosted with us. For information about setting this up, see <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/4041?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Managing Domain Names with Off-site DNS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Here<\/td>\n<td>VPS\/Dedicated<br \/>\nhere<\/td>\n<td>You can create your own nameservers by registering &#8220;hosts&#8221; for your domain name using <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/12320?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Creating your own nameserver (registering your own domain hosts)<\/a>. After creating the hosts, see <a href=\"http:\/\/help.secureserver.net\/article\/12317?prog_id=110402&amp;locale=en\">Set custom nameservers for domains registered with us<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After updating your nameservers, allow 4 to 8 hours for other networks to access information for .com and .net domain names, and allow 24 to 48 hours for other networks to access information for all other domain extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nameservers control where your domain name reaches out when visitors access it. When you register a domain name, we set it to our &#8220;parked&#8221; nameservers, which just display a temporary page. However, you got a domain name to make a website and might need to change your nameservers to connect it to your domain name. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/2015\/10\/20\/whonami-how-to-change-nameservers-for-your-domain-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whonami-How to change nameservers for your domain names?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[47,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whonami.com\/domain-registration-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}