Comments on: Web Hosting Jargon – Name Server

By: Katie Parker

Katie Parker — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:08:43 +0000

Hey Dan,

Thanks for explaining what name servers are and how they help a common netizen like me!

My website is hosted on the server of a Verisign secured web host, LimeDomains. Now, I’d ask the company to update my name server so that I can avail its benefit for addressing my online needs.

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working remedies for toenail fungus — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:26:57 +0000

Thanks for clearing this up for me. I never really understood what a name server was until now.

By: Wyjazdy studenckie

Wyjazdy studenckie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:04:15 +0000

Finally I won’t feel like a complete idiot when my friends (all went into IT, only I got into marketing) talk about this stuff. Are you planning to make a series of articles like this ? Or have you already and I’m just dumb for not reading more before commenting ?:P

By: anand4hosting

anand4hosting — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:20:08 +0000

Well all depends on the propagation by the domain registrar..some times48 hrs also Kronik Media has explained above that the virtual DNS modifications do it really works practically if you have done this kind of stuff pls share your experiments.

By: Wisp

Wisp — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:40:19 +0000

Aha, I should agree with Kronik Media and say, that DNS easily can be soft =), that runs on the web servers.

But in general – good jobs, partner! Thanks for good explanation!

By: Kronik Media

Kronik Media — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:17:13 +0000

As a smple explanation name server can be seen as a software that allows us to map domain names to ip address of the website. It is not really a hardware as the name might sound. NAMESERVER is instead a software application which is usually run on the web server itself.

By: Marblehost

Marblehost — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:25:24 +0000

Its a bit more complicated then that, but the DNS is just a big phone book, the servers that run the internet have expanded to include a bunch that were not available in the beginning, .tv .us .biz these where added to the orginal .gov .com .net .org model.

By: XboxIcon

XboxIcon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:50:50 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for explaining what name servers are. I was having trouble getting my domain registrar to update my name servers. I didn’t realize that it takes 24 hours for the DNS to change. Ty for that!