Author Archives: Torikul Islam Titas

‘DNS propagation’ is a term used to describe the time frame after making any changes to your domain name. Such propagation will occur after any: Changes to your domain’s WHOIS information. WHOIS is a publicly available tool that searches the … Continued

While the main purpose of the Domain Name System is to point domains to IP addresses, a PTR record works in the opposite way – it associates an IP with a domain name. Because of its purpose, a PTR record … Continued

The Private DNS are name servers that reflect your domain name rather than our default ones. The service is available to all our clients on all our hosting plans. The default nameservers for your account have the following structure: 1 … Continued

Wildcard subdomains are useful when you wish to redirect all visitors to your website regardless of what subdomain they access your website through. This is also useful when someone mistypes www for example and writes ww.yourdomain.com. In other words, with wildcard subdomains it … Continued

If you are a XonHost customer, you can manage your domain’s A records from your cPanel. To do this, please use the Simple DNS Zone Editor tool to make the necessary changes in the DNS zone for the selected domain name. If you have … Continued

To check the current nameservers for any domain name, you can use one of the many online whois tools available. For example: https://whois.domaintools.com It will show you detailed information about the desired domain name, including its nameservers in the Name Server(s) section … Continued

While using XonHost name servers your domain will be pointed to your hosting account, and its active DNS zone will be situated on your XonHost hosting server. In this case you can edit your DNS records directly in cPanel using … Continued

As long as your domain is registered through XonHost there will be no problem to change its name servers. This can be done from your User Area -> My Accounts -> Manage (next to the domain name you want) -> Your Domain DNS. Modify the NS records … Continued

The most widely used DNS record types, and their purpose are as follows: A – specifies IP addresses corresponding to your domain and its subdomains; MX – specifies where the emails for your domain should be delivered; CNAME – specifies … Continued

First make sure you are entering the correct DNS servers for your domain. You can find your hosting account’s name servers in your User Area -> My Accounts -> Information & Settings, under the hosting account you will be pointing the domain to. Some local … Continued