I know when customers of ours want .nz nameservers registered we just email our .com partner (Names4Ever) and they just add them for us... we've never had any problems in this regard, the only problems we've had is when trying to register .com NS with them, when we don't have the domain with them... that' they won't do :P Still I wouldn't recommend Names4Ever for a host of other reasons... Regards, Stephen Farrar Microsoft Systems Administrator ________________________________________ http://www.digiweb.co.nz Webhosting, Dedicated Servers, E-commerce Phone: (64 3) 351 6713 extn: 206 Fax: (64 3) 351 6705 Free: 0800 DIGIWEB (0800 344-493) Email: stephen(a)digiweb.net.nz PLEASE NOTE: The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential and subject to privilege. The views expressed may not necessarily be the official view of Digiweb New Zealand Limited. All technical advice and opinions are offered on a 'no-liability' basis. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email and delete the original. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: nznog(a)lunatic.net.nz [mailto:nznog(a)lunatic.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 8:42 a.m. To: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] 'Registering' a DNS server On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:18:51 +1300 (NZDT), Simon Lyall <simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz> wrote:
Ok, I just spent 10 minutes googling around but no luck. [1] Why does .com and some other TLDs require that name servers be registered? [1] I did find this useful link on how to register nameservers though: http://www.whsupport.net/register_nameservers.php -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
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Theres also the possibility that the registrar is fundamentally broken. I've come across instances in the past where a registrar wont allow you to set NS records if the target domain doesn't exist in their authoritive nameservers. This was supposed to be some "feature" which stopped a user from entering invalid info. The only fix for this is to make them temporarily create a zone for your NS domain while you fix the NS entries on your new domain. I've seen plenty of registrars that dont care at all what you use for NS records, and i have a handful of .com/.net domains who point to .nz NS's myself. Ask iServe? net24? they are more pricey than US registrars, but at least you can talk to them. I havent seen anything about registering NS records with registrars though, so i may be missing the point entirely?. Jeremy. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog