Every domain needs assignment to Nameservers. If you’ve just added a domain to your VPS, and are using that VPS also as a set of Nameservers, your checklist may have brought you here to now follow these steps.
Assign/Reassign Nameservers for Any Domain
These steps show how to assign (or reassign) previously registered nameservers to any domain. This is done on the domain registrar’s site for a domain. Below are shown several registrar’s methods & some URLs are given for various different ones. So, for the current domain in question, proceed to change the nameservers for it, using the registrar’s site.
Only if your nameservers are already registered at your domain’s registrar, can you then assign them to your domain.
Important Notes Before Changing Nameservers
Applying a Nameserver change will temporarily halt public viewing of any existing, old website on another server. Also, you won’t be able to logon via WP-Admin anymore for that old site, if it exists. You will be able to logon when you create it as a new site on this new server and import in the backed up (exported) copy. Knowing that, from this point forward, continue to pursue these steps in order.
Changing Nameservers Assignments for a Domain
- Logon to the registrar that holds the applicable domain name you want to assign different nameservers.
- Click on the applicable domain name in the list of domains at your registrar.
- Look for an option named like “nameservers”, “manage DNS”, or “DNS” and click it.
- Some of the more popular or better registrars will then display a specific option to edit nameservers for that domain. If you don’t see any such options, it’s safest to go ahead and submit a support ticket requesting the nameserver names to be assigned to the applicable domain.
- If you found the option to edit your nameservers, go ahead and proceed with the name changes and ensure you’re removing the default nameserver names. However, it’s a good idea to take note of the current nameserver names before you overwrite them. That’s in case you experience an issue and need to return those prior nameserver names.
Example Registrars for Assigning Nameservers
- Assigning nameservers with iWebFusion registrar.
- Assigning nameservers with NameCheap registrar.
- For iWebFusion registrar, change its domain’s nameservers, as follows.
- Tap to open domain from domains list. It shows it’s locked but tap on URL “Change the nameservers your domain points to”. Assuming you named each one to start with ns1 & ns2, followed by the dot and your account domain name, change them to be:
- ns1.<your account domain name>
- ns2.<your account domain name>
The procedure varies with other registrars.
Benefits of Changing Nameservers to your VPS
Be aware that assigning these registered nameservers gives you full DNS control over that domain if assigning the nameservers that exist on this unmanaged VPS as depicted on this entire site.
Next Steps
Depending on what brought you here, you can easily return to that exact area on the page. Just, click any of these specific areas or checklist sections you recognize that led you here.
- Complete Setup Guide: Return to section “Assign/Reassign NameServers” and continue after checklist of Assign NameServers at Domain’s Registrar.
- Consider Actions After Changing Nameservers to a Domain.