Setup vanity nameservers for Premium DNS-zones
With Realtime Register Premium DNS-services you're able to set vanity nameservers and use hostnames of your own choosing to brand the DNS service when desired. To setup vanity nameservers, the host must be created and supporting records provisioned in the DNS zone of your domain. To ensure proper operation of your DNS zones make sure the following configuration is executed carefully.
To execute these steps you need:
- Control over the domain under which the hostnames are created
- Control of the DNS zone of the domain under which the hostnames are created
- To substitute the example hostnames ns1.yourname.com and ns1.yourname.com with your chosen hostnames
- Keep the IP records as specified in this document
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- Add A / AAAA records to the zone containing the name server hostnames.(e.g. yourname.com)
ns1.yourname.com. IN A 192.174.68.15 ns1.yourname.com. IN AAAA 2001:67c:1bc::15 ns2.yourname.com. IN A 176.97.158.15 ns2.yourname.com. IN AAAA 2001:67c:10b8::15
If the DNS zone of your domain is hosted by Realtime Register you can use the steps below to update the zone trough our Portal. If the DNS-zone of your domain is not managed with Realtime Register, contact the support department of the registrar that manages your domain's DNS zone for instructions
- A / IP v4: 192.174.68.15
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AAAA / IPv6: 2001:67c:1bc::15
- A / IP v4: 176.97.158.15
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AAAA / IPv6: 2001:67c:10b8::15
If the domain is registered by Realtime Register you can use the steps below to create the hosts trough our Portal. If the domain is not managed with Realtime Register, contact the support department of the registrar that manages your domain for instructions to setup the host objects with the above IP-adresses.
Configure A / AAAA records for zone hosted by Realtime Register
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- Navigate to the Zone overview page in our portal, search for your domain and open it. In case the zone does not exist at all, you can create a new zone with the nameserver hosts and point them to the IP-addresses outlined below
Important
If the zone does not exist it is not hosted by Realtime Register.
If you wish to move this zone to Realtime Register, instructions to create a Premium DNS-zone can be found Create a Premium DNS-zone knowledge base article. Make sure to copy any existing records form your current DNS provider to the new zone.
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- Click the Update action under Records/Template and add the below records to the zone
Important
You can only change records for zones that are not linked to a master or template. If a template is linked you can decouple the template to manage the records for this zone directly. If a master is linked you need to make the changes to the DNS records on the master server.
| Name | Type | Content | TTL |
| ns1.yourname.com |
A | 192.174.68.15 |
3600 |
| ns1.yourname.com |
AAAA | 2001:67c:1bc::15 |
3600 |
| ns2.yourname.com |
A | 176.97.158.15 |
3600 |
| ns2.yourname.com |
AAAA | 2001:67c:10b8::15 |
3600 |
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- Click Update to save the changes.
Important
DNS records are cached by DNS resolvers and clients, wait at least for the the TTL of the zone to expire before using the hostnames.
Create hosts for domain registered by Realtime Register
Next, we're going to create host objects for the hostnames with the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This will create the hosts at the managing registry. The host addresses are outlined below and in the example below we're going to create the ns1.yourname.com & ns2.yourname.com hosts.
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- Navigate to Host overview page in our portal and click + New host
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- Create the first host with the following details:
- Hostname
- ns1.yourname.com
- Addresses
- 192.174.68.15
- 2001:67c:1bc::15
Important
For more detailed instructions on creating Hosts, go to the Create Hosts knowledge base article.
Using your vanity nameservers
That's it, you've now setup nameserver hostnames and hosts objects for a domain in your Realtime Register account you wish to use as vanity nameservers for use with the Realtime Register premium DNS-services. Per the above example, the nameserver hostnames ns1.yourname.com & ns2.yourname.com nameserver hostnames can now be used as vanity nameservers using the Realtime Register Premium DNS-services
Important
Make sure you allow for enough time for the newly created hostnames and host objects to be visible in the DNS. A quick search on one of the many DNS-tools available in your internet browser is good practice to check if the newly created nameserver hosts are fully active prior to using the newly created nameserver hostnames & objects as Vanity nameservers in the Realtime Register Premium DNS-services
In case you're not sure if everything is setup correctly, you can always send an email to our support department to double check.
In order to use the created vanity nameservers for Premium DNS-zones in your Realtime Register account there are different scenarios, they're outlined below
New Premium DNS-zone creation
Select the Vanity nameserver option during Premium DNS-zone creation and submit your vanity nameservers in the input fields and you're good to go.
For instructions on creating a new Premium DNS-zone, go to the Create a Premium DNS-zone knowledge base article.
Already active managed Premium DNS-zones
For managed Premium DNS-zones that are already active, changing the nameservers to the vanity nameservers goes through a domain update by updating the nameservers to the vanity nameservers.
For instructions on updating a domain through our portal, go to the Update domain(s) knowledge base article.
Already active unmanged Premium DNS-zones
For Unmanaged Premium DNS-zones, update the zone to the vanity nameservers goes through an update of the Unmanaged Premium DNS-zone nameservers.
For instructions on updating an existing Premium DNS-zone, go to the Update Premium DNS-zone nameservers knowledge base article.