Thanks for that Joe. I can't find a registrar that will allow me to register a non COM/NET name server - if anyone knows a registrar that allows this could you please let me know? Then we can move our names there and register the new name servers as well. Thanks, Gerard On 26/02/2008 4:35 a.m., Joe Abley wrote:
Hey,
On 25-Feb-2008, at 04:42, Gerard Creamer wrote:
We've just set up a new DNS server for a client whose domain name is a .co.nz name, and we can't make it a primary or secondary for .com or .net names. In the (distant) past we've 'registered' name servers with Network Solutions, and then it's been all good. Now that the registries are with Verisign there seems to be no way to register anything other than a name server on a .com or .net name, and that has to be completed via the registrar (Tucows, Godaddy etc).
Network Solutions is a registrar, just like Tucows, GoDaddy, etc. Verisign is the registry operator for .COM and .NET.
In registry terms, what you need to do is request the creation of a host object in the COM/NET registry for the new DNS server. Since in this case the new nameserver is named under CO.NZ and not COM or NET, its registration will not require you to specify IP (v4/v6) addresses; just the name.
You can't deal directly with the registry, however -- you need to have your request passed through by a registrar. Different registrars present the "create host object" operation to end users (registrants) differently.
Joe
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