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Originally Posted by Denisl
Thank you for clearing that one up for me - I don't have a good enough understanding of how that side of things works
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Hi Denis,
DNS( Domain Name System) topic is slightly complicated, but I will try to explain how DNS works in few lines. DNS and Nameservers are one and the same.
Your visitors browser will first contact central registry for the type of domain you have. If you have a .com or .net TLD domain then first contact will be made with ICANN, if your domain is a .co.uk domain then Nominet will become the first point of contact.
Browser will detect the registrar of domain from ICANN / Nominet registry and then proceed to next step which is DNS. Your registrar holds information about the DNS of your domain name and DNS nameservers guide visitors browser to the server which hosts your website. If you point your nameservers to our nameservers, then the visitors browser will know which server is hosting your website and email service.
visitors browser will then look for A record and SOA record on our server. A record points to the IP address assigned to your domain name and SOA record means "Start of Authority" which allows your website to work from our server. Our server creates A record and SOA records by default once we add your account on our server, so there's absolutely nothing to be concerned about these 2 records, but your website will never work if we miss out any of these 2 records.
Our server also holds your MX records ( Mail exchanger records) which is extremely important for Email Service. You can change this MX record to make your email service work from a different server. You can add multiple MX entries to set priorities for email service.
I hope I have helped you to understand how DNS(Nameservers) works.
