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Find my CheapDomainRegistration.com nameservers

If your domain is registered at another company, but you’re hosting your website with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com, you can connect the domain name to your website using our nameservers.

 Warning: Changing your domain’s nameservers changes where its email gets delivered. If you don’t want to make any changes to your email service, you can use your account’s IP address instead. However, if you do want to change your nameservers but keep your email service, you can update your MX records.

Which nameservers you’ll use depends on how you’re hosting your website:

Service Where to find your nameservers…
Website Builder Find my website’s nameservers
cPanel shared hosting Find your website’s nameservers
Plesk shared hosting Find your website’s nameservers
Web & Classic Hosting Find my website’s nameservers
Managed WordPress Find my website’s nameservers
CashParking What are my CashParking website’s nameservers?
Online Store You cannot host Online Store websites for domains registered elsewhere. However, you can transfer the domain name to us
Reseller Reseller storefronts don’t use nameservers; instead see Forwarding Your Domain Name to Your Reseller Storefront

 Note: Changing nameservers for .COM and .NET domains can take 4-8 hours to display on the internet. All other types of domains can take up to 48 hours.

Next step

  • Contact your domain name’s registrar to update your domain name‘s nameservers
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Manage DNS zone files

You can change which service your domain uses for its website and email by managing its DNS records (also known as zone file records). How you access your DNS records depends on where your domain is registered and hosted. Use the table below to find the scenario that’s applicable to your situation and follow those instructions.

If your domain is Follow these instructions…
Registered with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com and using IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com nameservers (either hosted with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com or not yethosted anywhere) See the Working with DNS records table below
Registered with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com, but hosted at another company and using their nameservers You’ll need to manage DNS through your hosting company
Registered with another company, but hosted with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com and using IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com nameservers Log in to your hosting account using the instructions in Manage DNS for your hosting account, then see the Working with DNS records table below
Neither registered nor hosted with IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com (using DNS Hosting – formerly called “Off-Site” DNS) Manage DNS zone files for your domain registered at another company

Working with DNS records

Click on the link for the type of record you would like to add, change, or delete:

 Note: If your domain is registered at another company, please click on the link below for the DNS record you’d like to add, change, or delete and follow the Domains registered at another company set of instructions at the bottom of that article.

Type of Record What it’s for Add, Change or Delete
A Record Connects an IP Address to a host name Add; Change; Delete
CNAME Record Allows more than one DNS name for a host Add; Change; Delete
MX Record Ensures email is delivered to the right location Add; Change; Delete
NS Record Contains the nameserver info Add; Change; Delete
TXT Record Provides additional info about a host or more technical info to servers Add; Change; Delete
SRV Record Finds computers that host specific services Add; Change; Delete
AAAA Record Provides IP addresses that do not fit a standard A Record format Add; Change; Delete
SPF Record Used to help prevent against spam Add; Change; Delete
CAA Record Used to prevent anyone from obtaining an unauthorized SSL certificate for your domain Add; Change; Delete
 Warning: Any DNS changes you make can take up to 48 hours to reflect on the Internet.
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What is DNS?

DNS, which stands for domain name system, controls your domain name’s website and email settings. When visitors go to your domain name, its DNS settings control which company’s server it reaches out to.

For example, if you use IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com’s DNS settings, visitors will reach IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com’s servers when using your domain name. If you change those settings to user another company’s servers, visitors will reach them instead of us when visiting your domain.

What I’m seeing is more complicated than that…

DNS can be confusing. It’s made up of many different elements that control different aspects of your domain name. Here’s a quick explanation of each one:

DNS Element Description
Nameserver Nameservers “point” your domain name to the company that controls its DNS settings. Usually, this will be the company where you registered the domain name.

However, if your website is hosted by another company, sometimes they will provide nameservers you need to point to instead.
Zone File Zone Files are simply the files that store all of your domain’s DNS settings.

Your domain name’s Zone File is stored on the company’s nameserver.
A Record A Records point your domain name to an individual server using an IP address. An example IP address is 123.4.67.5.

Every domain name has a primary A Record called “@,” which controls what your domain name does when some visits it directly.

You can also use A Records to point subdomains (for example subdomain.coolexample.com) to a server’s IP address.
CNAME CNAMEs point your subdomains to another server using a server name, like server1.secureserver.net.

Most domain names have many CNAMEs.

Unlike A Records, CNAMEs cannot use IP addresses.
MX Records MX Records point your domain name’s email to its email provider.

If your domain name uses our nameservers, you can view or change your domain name’s DNS through us.

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