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Often times we receive emails, calls or chats where a customer wants to know how to start a Hosting Company or Service. \u00a0Since cPanel makes it so easy to do this, their obvious choice is to use our Software to host websites for their clients, friends or family. \u00a0An important part of \u201cbranding\u201d their service is to instruct their hosting customers to use custom nameservers that will need to be associated with their domain name. <\/span><\/p>\n What is a “nameserver” you might ask? Every domain name that is used on the Internet needs to be registered. \u00a0It doesn’t matter what the extension of the domain name is, the common requirement for all domain names is that it must have at least 2 nameservers assigned to it. \u00a0The function of a nameserver is to answer queries of browser or email clients giving the IP address of the domain name. \u00a0Nameservers are programs that run continuously on Internet servers and either give the IP address of the query or point to another nameserver at a higher level that might have the answer. \u00a0This process continues until a \u201croot\u201d nameserver is reached which will have the answer if there is one to give. \u00a0Every cPanel server has the ability to run a nameserver program and is able to function as an Authoritative Nameserver for domain names.<\/span><\/p>\n If you want to give your customers a custom nameserver name, that is a name that includes your company or personal domain name, you can do this easily. \u00a0Say that your domain name is \u201cYourFabSite.com\u201d and you want to give your customers \u201cns1.YourFabSite.com and ns2.YourFabSite.com\u201d as the nameservers for their domain names when they host with you, you can do that! \u00a0Here are the steps that you would go through to set up Custom Nameservers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Step 1<\/b><\/p>\n Since your domain name does have a registrar such as GoDaddy, Namecheap, Enom, Network Solutions, or Reseller Club you would go to their site and find the place to register or record a “host name” for the domain name. \u00a0Each registrar will have a little different terminology and procedure, but what you need to do is create a host name on your domain name and assign an IP address to that host name. \u00a0A host name on a domain is the third level name. \u00a0An example of a host name is “ns1”. \u00a0Adding this to our domain name we will need to register “ns1.yourfabsite.com” to the IP address of the server where this account is located.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Step 2<\/b><\/p>\n After we have registered our 2 custom nameservers, we need to add the host names to our DNS zone file. \u00a0This is easily done on your cPanel server either in WHM or in cPanel, depending on how your account is structured. \u00a0They would be entered as “A” records into the DNS zone file. \u00a0If you only have one server, you may need to use the same IP address for both of your custom nameservers, but that is OK and will save you some money by only having one cPanel server. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Step 3<\/b><\/p>\n Once both of the previous steps are completed, you should wait at least 24 hours to be sure that your DNS changes have been completely propagated and are updated everywhere on the Internet. \u00a0At this time you can either have your customers change the nameservers on their existing domains or any new customers can add your custom nameservers to their domain names when they sign up with you.<\/span><\/p>\n Once you have been able to locate how your domain name registrar lets you register host name\u2019s on your domain name, you will find it very easy to setup custom nameservers. \u00a0Also, using the cPanel Software makes it very easy to edit your DNS zone files and add the new host name A records.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if you just want to create a custom nameserver on your own domain name, without ever thinking about starting a hosting business, these steps will help you to do that. \u00a0Simply follow the steps and register 2 new host names with the main IP of your website and add the host names to your zone file in cPanel. \u00a0Then YourFabSite.com will be truly yours.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have any questions, please feel free to contact cPanel Customer Service at cs@cpanel.net and we will be happy to assist you with your project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Often times we receive emails, calls or chats where a customer wants to know how to start a Hosting Company or Service. \u00a0Since cPanel makes it so easy to do this, their obvious choice is to use our Software to host websites for their clients, friends or family. \u00a0An important part of \u201cbranding\u201d their service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n