Vanity Nameserver overview
Your guide to pathway services
You need to create records for vanity nameservers if you want to manage your own DNS records.
NOTE: If you were managing your own domain at qwert.us (for example), your nameservers would be: ns1.qwert.us and ns2.qwert.us.
Important things to keep in mind when adding vanity nameservers:
- We need to register your nameservers with a registrar. ns1.qwert.us and ns2.qwert.us have a DNS entry for qwert.us. Before nameservers can be used they need to be registered with a registrar.
- Your registrar will then inform all TLD servers that the DNS entry for qwert.us exists on one of these nameservers: ns1.qwert.us or ns2.qwert.us.
- When users search or browse for qwert.us, the TLD servers will query your own nameservers to find the IP address of qwert.us.
- Registering your nameservers is an important step for configuring your own DNS. The process of specifying and adding your own nameservers is called 'creating a glue record'.
